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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 do the men have to do in the coldest part of winter to keep their axes from breaking?
(a) Wear gloves.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Pour water on them.
(d) Warm them before using them.

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

3. How does Uncle David say Alen came from the old country?
(a) He walked.
(b) By wagon.
(c) By boat.
(d) By ferry.

4. What kind of tool does Uncle David say Crazy Alen used to cut trees?
(a) An ax.
(b) A crosscut saw.
(c) A chain saw.
(d) A bucksaw.

5. What does Uncle David do with the axes immediately after splitting the log?
(a) Sharpens them.
(b) Puts them in another log.
(c) Puts one on each shoulder.
(d) Puts them on the ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Orud's helmet made of?

2. For what does Uncle David say the rivers were used?

3. What does he say her eyes are like?

4. What is the game the foreman sometimes plays with Alen?

5. What is the story Uncle David tells in the winter room that night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David say about his life after Alida's death?

2. Describe the argument that happens over Melena.

3. Describe the rest of the story after Father reveals that the woodcutter in the story is Uncle David?

4. Describe what happens to the village after the deaths of Melena and Orud and what the people of the village believe has caused it.

5. What are the reactions of each of the family members when David finishes telling the story of Alida?

6. Why does Uncle David say he knows more about Crazy Alen's jokes than some of the other men in the logging camps?

7. What is the conversation in the winter room the night after Wayne calls Uncle David a liar?

8. What is the role of the boys who are too young to cut wood in Uncle David's story of the woodcutter?

9. How does David say his life changes when he marries Alida?

10. What does David say about the first time he sees Alida?

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