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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alen do with the cabin door just before he dies?
(a) Burns it.
(b) Opens it.
(c) Blocks it with furniture.
(d) Closes it.

2. According to Uncle David, what is the story of the woodcutter really about?
(a) A young man.
(b) The cutting of a huge forest.
(c) The differences between then and today.
(d) The method of replanting trees.

3. What is the reaction when Crazy Alen first starts playing jokes on the other men?
(a) The foreman threatens to fire him.
(b) The men laugh.
(c) The men try to come up with better jokes.
(d) The men are angry.

4. How many of the other stories that Uncle David tells does Eldon say he remembers?
(a) Eight.
(b) Dozens.
(c) All of them.
(d) Three.

5. What are some of the troubles that strike the village after Orud's death?
(a) Poisonous snakes infest the region.
(b) The women are unable to have children.
(c) Locusts arrive.
(d) Their crops fail.

6. What is the foreman's reaction to the joke?
(a) He fires Alen.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He is angry.
(d) He leaves the camp.

7. Where is the woman held on the way home?
(a) In the interior of the boat.
(b) In a rough cage on the deck.
(c) On the bow of the boat.
(d) In the captain's room.

8. What kind of trouble does Mother say a neighbor is having?
(a) They lost all their money in the stock market.
(b) Their cow has gone dry.
(c) Their barn burned.
(d) A sick baby in the family.

9. What color is Alida's hair?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Brown.

10. What does Wayne want to tell Eldon that morning in their special place?
(a) He has a girlfriend.
(b) He plans to run away from home.
(c) He doesn't think David is their uncle.
(d) Uncle David's stories are lies.

11. What does Eldon have for supper near the end of the chapter titled "Crazy Alen?"
(a) Soup and bread.
(b) Mashed potatoes and gravy.
(c) Beans, turnips, and turkey.
(d) Roast beef sandwich.

12. How much wood does Uncle David say they cut?
(a) He doesn't know.
(b) About a ten-mile square.
(c) About a hundred acres.
(d) About a hundred trees a day.

13. What does Uncle David do with the two split halves of the log?
(a) Puts them back on the pile.
(b) Takes them to the house for fire wood.
(c) Throws them in a ditch so no one can find them.
(d) Puts them in the barn for later use.

14. What does Wayne ask when the story is finished?
(a) How they got Alen into a casket.
(b) Where the foreman is now.
(c) How Alen knew he was going to die.
(d) He doesn't ask any question.

15. What is the story Uncle David tells in the winter room that night?
(a) He doesn't tell one.
(b) A new story neither boy has heard before.
(c) Only the story of Alida.
(d) The story of the woodcutter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color are Alida's eyes?

2. How old does Uncle David say he is when he meets Crazy Alen?

3. How is Alida wearing her hair the first time Uncle David sees her?

4. What is the name of the beautiful woman Orud and his men capture?

5. What is Wayne's reaction when Father says that the young woodcutter is really Uncle David?

(see the answer keys)

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