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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 subject in which the Findlaters do well?
(a) Arithmetic.
(b) Reading.
(c) Spelling.
(d) History.

2. When was the Starvation Winter as the Blackfeet called it?
(a) 1891.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1893.

3. Whose portraits hang in the South Fork school?
(a) Washington and Lincoln.
(b) Adams and Jefferson.
(c) Washington and Jefferson.
(d) Lincoln and Harrison.

4. What bird do Rob and Angus see when they find Tom Mortensen dead near his chopping block?
(a) Blackbird.
(b) Starling.
(c) Magpie.
(d) Flycatcher.

5. Where does Angus find work in Helena?
(a) McAngus's Mercantile.
(b) Cariston's Mercantile.
(c) Smithson's Mercantile.
(d) Browning's Mercantile.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Angus when his mother died?

2. What do Rob and Judith name their first child?

3. What was the name of the teacher who taught before Angus takes over the classroom at South Fork?

4. How old was Angus when his father died?

5. What killed Angus's father and mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice does "Crofutt's Trans-Atlantic Emigrants" Guide give individuals who are considering emigrating?

2. When Rob becomes interested in Nancy, how does Lucas solve that problem?

3. Describe Anna Ramsay.

4. What are the benefits and problems of raising sheep?

5. Why is a vendor selling limes to passengers on Rob's and Angus's ship?

6. Why in 1893, does the South Fork need a school teacher when the school year is close to beginning?

7. What did Angus's father's grandfather, Alexander McCaskill, help to build?

8. How are Rob and Angus listed on the passenger list of the James Watt?

9. How do Rob and Angus decide whose house to build first?

10. Why do the bumboats dock against the steamship Rob and Angus are taking to America?

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