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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. What do Alen and the foreman drink when they are playing their game?
2. What is Mother's reaction to Uncle David's story about Alida?
3. Why does Eldon, Father, and Wayne spend a day splitting and cutting firewood?
4. What is the joke Alen plays on the foreman?
5. What is the problem the foreman faces with getting Alen out of the cabin?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Eldon say about the different ways he and Wayne view Uncle David's stories?
2. What is the role of the boys who are too young to cut wood in Uncle David's story of the woodcutter?
3. What were some of the jokes Crazy Alen would play on the other men in the camp?
4. What does Alen do just before he dies? What is the weather like at the time?
5. What is the joke that Crazy Alen plays on the foreman? Why does it get him fired?
6. How do Orud and Melena die and what do people believe happened after that?
7. What is Eldon's reaction to Uncle David's story?
8. What are the reactions of each of the family members when David finishes telling the story of Alida?
9. How does the story of Alida begin and who is telling the story?
10. What does Uncle David say about the men who lived during the time of Orud?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Wayne? Father? Mother? Uncle David? Nels? How is each related to Eldon? Which of these relationships is/are most important to the story?
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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