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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Gertie leave many trees alone when she goes out for wood to make axe handles?
(a) To provide shade
(b) To protect the property
(c) To use later to build a barn
(d) To let them grow straight

2. What takes the joy out of his hunting triumph for Reuben?
(a) Remembering Henley is dead
(b) Knowing his father is not there to see it
(c) Getting in trouble for shooting it illegally
(d) Getting yelled at for hunting on Sunday

3. How do Gertie and the children travel?
(a) Mule
(b) Truck
(c) Train
(d) Car

4. What happened to the shaving strop?
(a) Clovis took it with him
(b) Cassie hid it
(c) It is broken
(d) It is in the trash

5. What happens to Gertie's dream of living in Tipton Place by the end of chapter nine?
(a) Destroyed only
(b) Realized only
(c) Realized and destroyed
(d) Unchanged

6. What does Gertie have to help the children get into for their first day of school?
(a) Taxi cab
(b) Bookbags
(c) Uniforms
(d) Snowsuits

7. Which of the following terrifies Cassie about the new home in Detroit?
(a) Banging on the walls from angry neighbors complaining about the noise
(b) The unfriendly lack of welcome she gets when she goes out to find kindling for the coal fire
(c) The lack of pretty decoration
(d) The shower

8. Who does Gertie leave Amos with while she takes the kids to school for the first day?
(a) Clovis
(b) Maggie
(c) Max
(d) Sophronie

9. What animal did Reuben kill when hunting?
(a) Mountain lion
(b) Bear
(c) Deer
(d) Squirrel

10. What is Gertie doing when Old John comes to talk to her?
(a) Watching Cassie learn to read
(b) Waiting in the post office
(c) Talking to Clovis's mother
(d) Digging potatoes

11. Which of the following is a climactic reversal of fortune?
(a) Old John's preliminary agreement to sell the place
(b) Cassie's difficulty learning to read
(c) Gertie wondering where Clovis is and when she will be able to buy the Tipton Place
(d) Mother's manipulating Gertie into going into the city

12. Which of the following words describes Gertie's mother?
(a) Manipulative
(b) Kind hearted
(c) Deceptive
(d) Loving

13. Who reassures Gertie that Clovis is okay?
(a) The grocery store clerk
(b) Clovis' mother
(c) Cassie
(d) The post office clerk

14. Which of the following words best describes how Cassie feels about school?
(a) Constant anticipation
(b) Disgusted
(c) Fearful
(d) Excited

15. At the beginning of chapter five, why does Gertie awaken early?
(a) The kids wake her up
(b) Clovis wakes her up
(c) Noises outside
(d) A dream about Henley

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characters is not a neighbor of Gertie's in Detroit?

2. Why does Gertie direct the mule into the path of the car?

3. Where do Gertie and the children move?

4. When does Gertie think Clovis will return home?

5. Where does Gertie's mother say Henley is?

(see the answer keys)

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