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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. How do the men get Alen's body from the camp to town?
2. What is the second story Uncle David tells that night?
3. Who do the people of the village blame for their troubles?
4. What is Wayne's reaction when Father says that the young woodcutter is really Uncle David?
5. How does the foreman get Alen out of the cabin?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the reactions of each of the family members when David finishes telling the story of Alida?
2. Describe the rest of the story after Father reveals that the woodcutter in the story is Uncle David?
3. How do Orud and Melena die and what do people believe happened after that?
4. What is Eldon's reaction to Uncle David's story?
5. What does Uncle David say about the amount of wood they cut and their attitudes about the cleared land?
6. What does Eldon say about the different ways he and Wayne view Uncle David's stories?
7. What does David say about his life after Alida's death?
8. What do Wayne and Eldon talk about in their special place in the granary? What happens when Uncle David overhears?
9. What does Uncle David say one particular woodcutter was able to do with a match?
10. Why does Uncle David say he knows more about Crazy Alen's jokes than some of the other men in the logging camps?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Eldon. What is his role in the story? What kind of boy is he?
Essay Topic 2
Eldon talks about a time of division, such as the time between yesterday and today and the time between fall and winter. What does Eldon believe about the possibility that this division exists? What does Wayne believe? What do you believe? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Besides Eldon, who is the most important character of the story? Why is that character important?
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