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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the F-12?
(a) A plane.
(b) A gun.
(c) A pickup.
(d) A tractor.
2. How many seagulls arrive each summer during plowing season?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) About a dozen.
(c) Maybe twenty or thirty.
(d) Only a few.
3. How much does Father say the horses weigh?
(a) Close to a ton each.
(b) He doesn't say.
(c) A couple of hundred pounds each.
(d) Close to a hundred pounds each.
4. How long does Mother stay at the quilting bee at the end of fall?
(a) Three hours.
(b) Two hours.
(c) All day.
(d) Four hours.
5. Who was Uncle David married to?
(a) Claudia.
(b) Jeanetta .
(c) Alida.
(d) Annabelle.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the snow on the elm limb look like?
2. What does Mother do in the evenings in the winter room?
3. What do Uncle David and Nels do that makes Eldon think they don't like the killing either?
4. Who turns the crank on the cream separator?
5. Uncle David says summer is close to fall, and spring is close to summer. To what season is winter close?
Short Essay Questions
1. What prompts the fight between Eldon and Wayne in the opening paragraphs of "Winter," and what do the boys decide about their argument?
2. What do Wayne and Eldon do after they find the western?
3. What are some of the smells Eldon describes in the opening chapter called "Tuning?"
4. What are some of the sounds Elden describes in the opening chapter?
5. What does Mother say about Jerseys and Holsteins?
6. Describe what happens to Cousin Betty's daughter and where she's found.
7. What does the family eat at their annual picnic to the lake?
8. When does Father take the plow shares in to be sharpened? Why does he do it then, and why does Eldon like to go along?
9. Describe the stove in the winter room and what Wayne says the rails are for.
10. How does Eldon describe the tractor and what does he say about his father being injured by the tractor?
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