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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. Why does the family sometimes not eat supper until after ten in the summer?
(a) It's too hot for Mother to cook until it's dark.
(b) No particular reason.
(c) The work takes so long.
(d) They're often at the lake until dark.

2. What do Eldon and Wayne do with the grain shovels the day after the first snowfall?
(a) Shovel a path to the barn.
(b) Dig holes for storing potatoes.
(c) Slide down the hill.
(d) Move grain for the cows.

3. What is the F-12?
(a) A pickup.
(b) A gun.
(c) A plane.
(d) A tractor.

4. According to Eldon, who can eat "like six young men"?
(a) Nels.
(b) Old man Ransen.
(c) Wayne.
(d) Uncle David.

5. What kind of drink does Mother bring for the picnic at the lake?
(a) Tea.
(b) Lemonade.
(c) Sodas.
(d) Raspberry drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are in Eldon's family?

2. Who does the dishes?

3. How does the family dog spend most of its time?

4. How much older is Wayne than Eldon?

5. Where do the pigs run when they escape from their pen?

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. Describe what Father is working on during his evenings in the winter room.

3. What is the first thing Eldon describes doing after the first snow?

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

5. What does Eldon say in response to Wayne's idea that spring is an "awakening," and why does he have this attitude?

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

7. What does Eldon say about his dislike of fall?

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

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

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

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