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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Robert stay in bed to recover from his ordeal?
(a) Five weeks
(b) Three days
(c) One week
(d) One month

2. Who is the relative that is visiting at Robert's home?
(a) Cousin William
(b) Uncle Matthew
(c) Aunt Mattie
(d) Grandpa Robert

3. What does Robert build to play with in the water of a stream?
(a) A boat
(b) A bridge
(c) A canoe
(d) A waterwheel

4. What is the outcome of Robert's tutoring session?
(a) Promising
(b) Very successful
(c) Not successful
(d) Worth every minute

5. What is Robert's father pleased about?
(a) A new tractor
(b) A new variety of seed corn
(c) Robert's saving the cow and her calf
(d) The promise of rain

6. What does Robert contemplate feeding Pinky?
(a) Frogs
(b) Fish
(c) Cheese
(d) Flies

7. What does Robert hear after he leaves school and wanders the countryside?
(a) A girl singing
(b) Birds singing
(c) A train
(d) An anguished noise

8. What does Robert say is his favorite thing to look at?
(a) His mother's face
(b) Pinky
(c) The sunset
(d) Snowflakes

9. What does Pinky eat while in the countryside?
(a) Grass
(b) Berries
(c) Butternuts
(d) Mushrooms

10. What is Robert's mother's name?
(a) Lucy
(b) Lucille
(c) Lindy
(d) Linda

11. What does Robert feel being wrapped around him?
(a) A woolen robe
(b) A soft quilt
(c) A rough woolen blanket
(d) A cotton sheet

12. What is Robert's condition at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) He is dead
(b) He is paralyzed
(c) He is unconscious
(d) He is coming to after passing out

13. What wild plant does Robert eat outside?
(a) Sweet potato blossoms
(b) Purple clover
(c) Queen Anne's Lace
(d) Sunflower seeds

14. What is the piglet's new home made out of?
(a) A silo
(b) Some old fences
(c) An outhouse
(d) A corn crib

15. What meal does Robert's mother bring to him?
(a) Chicken and dumplings and coffee
(b) Succotash and milk
(c) Pancakes and hot chocolate
(d) Vegetable soup and tea

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Tanner give to Robert as a gesture of thanks for saving his cow and delivering the calves?

2. Where should Robert have been as Chapter 1 opens?

3. What is the first personal possession that Robert has ever had?

4. What is wrong with the cow after she delivers the calf?

5. What bites Pinky on the nose?

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