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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 grade does Mrs. Halverson teach?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Eighth.
(d) Tenth.

2. What does Eldon say he likes better than wax teeth?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Fudge.
(d) Coca-cola and peanuts.

3. Who does the dishes?
(a) Eldon.
(b) Uncle David.
(c) Mother.
(d) Wayne and Eldon.

4. What do Wayne and Eldon spend their afternoon doing?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Playing in the water.
(c) Canoeing.
(d) Catching frogs.

5. How many cleared acres are there on the family's farm?
(a) Forty.
(b) Ninety.
(c) Eighty-seven.
(d) One hundred twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eldon say the buildings and machines look like after the first snow?

2. What does Father do in the evenings in the winter room?

3. What is the F-12?

4. Why do Wayne and Eldon jump on the stacks of hay after it's cut?

5. Why does Eldon say the silo is filled with corn?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happens when Eldon and Mother take Father's lunch to the fields.

2. What are some of the "lights" Eldon describes in the opening chapter?

3. Describe the stove in the winter room and what Wayne says the rails are for.

4. Describe how Father pulls stumps out of the ground.

5. Who is Rex? What does he do around the farm? Why is he allowed to do that job?

6. How does Eldon describe the tractor and what does he say about his father being injured by the tractor?

7. 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?

8. Describe Eldon's childhood illness and the effect it has had on his life.

9. Describe the time when Wayne and Eldon carved their names into a tree. How did Eldon feel and what happened to the tree?

10. What prompts the fight between Eldon and Wayne in the opening paragraphs of "Winter," and what do the boys decide about their argument?

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