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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. When do Angus and Rob learn that Lucas has sent money to Scotland for Christmas 1889?

2. What simile does Angus use to compare the darkness of the night on board ship?

3. What type of trees are near the Noon Creek school?

4. When do Rob and Angus leave for America?

5. What type of meat do Rob and Angus eat during the winter of 1890-91?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Angus describe the men that Judith had to choose from as a husband?

2. Why isn't Angus able to sleep on water?

3. Why don't Rob and Angus eat some of their sheep during the long winter of early 1891?

4. What progress does Angus describe that occurs in 1891?

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

6. How did Lucas lose his hands?

7. What family does Rob leave behind in Nethermuir?

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

9. How do Rob and Angus claim the land that they want to homestead?

10. How does Susan Duff stop Daniel Rozier from putting garter snakes in the girls' outhouse at South Fork school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Angus's and Adair's marriage.

Essay Topic 2

When Angus begins teaching at South Fork, the boys keep knocking over the girls' outhouse. Discuss why the boys begin knocking over the outhouse and how Angus stops them from knocking it over.

Essay Topic 3

Adair does what she can to make the partnership with Lucas's sheep work. Discuss why and how Adair tries to make the partnership work between herself, Rob, and Angus with Lucas's sheep.

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