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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the living room called the winter room?

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

3. Why does the family sometimes not eat supper until after ten in the summer?

4. Who does Eldon say gets the cream money and the egg money?

5. Why does the blacksmith have to sharpen the plows every summer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What do Eldon and Wayne do with the stack of straw near the barn and what do Mother and Father say about it?

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

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

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

10. What do Wayne and Eldon do after they find the western?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the farm where Eldon lives with his family. What are the most important settings within the farm? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Does Eldon's life seem difficult? Support your answer with examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

What is the most important theme of this story? Why? Give at least two examples of that theme seen in this story.

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