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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 second story Uncle David tells that night?
(a) The story of Alida.
(b) The story of a terrible Viking.
(c) The story of a woodcutter.
(d) The story of an ugly man who loved a girl.

2. What is the reaction when Crazy Alen first starts playing jokes on the other men?
(a) The men are angry.
(b) The men try to come up with better jokes.
(c) The men laugh.
(d) The foreman threatens to fire him.

3. What do the people of the village believe happens to the boats that sail from their port?
(a) Orud sinks them in revenge for his death..
(b) Natives from other countries sink them
(c) Neptune causes storms to sink them.
(d) Melena spreads her hair to catch the boats and sink them.

4. What is the second story Uncle David always tells in the winter room?
(a) The Woodcutter.
(b) Crazy Alen.
(c) The second story is always different.
(d) Orud the Terrible.

5. What is the foreman's reaction to the joke?
(a) He fires Alen.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He leaves the camp.
(d) He laughs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uncle David sometimes do to earn extra money?

2. Where is Alida taking what she's carrying the first time David sees her?

3. How does Wayne stop Eldon from leaving the barn?

4. What does Alen do with the cabin door just before he dies?

5. How does Uncle David end the story of the woodcutter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Wayne and Eldon talk about in their special place in the granary? What happens when Uncle David overhears?

2. What is the challenge the foreman faces when he's trying to get Alen's body out of the cabin and to the camp?

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

4. What kind of jokes does Alen play on the foreman?

5. How does the story of Alida begin and who is telling the story?

6. What is Eldon's reaction to Uncle David's story?

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

8. What does Uncle David say about the amount of wood they cut and their attitudes about the cleared land?

9. What does Alen do after he's fired and why?

10. What does Eldon say about the different ways he and Wayne view Uncle David's stories?

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