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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. How does the family dog spend most of its time?
(a) Guarding the cows.
(b) Sitting on the porch.
(c) Chasing squirrels.
(d) Hunting.

2. Which of the animals killed each fall does Eldon say is the worst?
(a) The steer.
(b) The chickens.
(c) The geese.
(d) The pig.

3. Why does the family butcher two geese every year?
(a) To save for Thanksgiving dinner.
(b) To restuff the feather mattresses.
(c) To save for Christmas dinner.
(d) To make new pillows.

4. Why do Wayne and Eldon jump on the stacks of hay after it's cut?
(a) To be sure there aren't any animals hiding in the stacks.
(b) To pack it down.
(c) To make sure water can't seep into it.
(d) It's fun.

5. How old is the farm where the family lives?
(a) No one knows.
(b) The same age as Uncle David.
(c) About twenty years.
(d) At least a hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the dishes?

2. Who comes to help the family when it's haying time?

3. What grade does Mrs. Halverson teach?

4. What does Eldon say all the stacks of hay look like in the field?

5. Why do the men have to wear handkerchiefs over their noses during thrashing time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how and why Wayne jumps out of the barn loft.

2. Compare Uncle David's side of the room with Nels' side.

3. What are some of the smells Eldon describes in the opening chapter called "Tuning?"

4. Why does Uncle David believe everyone works so much harder in the summer than in the winter?

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

6. What are some of the things Eldon says happens when fall is over but winter hasn't yet formally arrived?

7. What does the family eat at their annual picnic to the lake?

8. Describe the haying process.

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

10. Describe what happens to Cousin Betty's daughter and where she's found.

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