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

2. What does Gertie enjoy imagining?
(a) Henley still being alive
(b) Life for Clovis once he is in the Army
(c) Her life at Tipton Place
(d) Life after her children are grown

3. What does Gertie hope to buy one day?
(a) Titon Farms
(b) A car
(c) Tipton Place
(d) New clothes

4. Which of the following animals does Gertie carve in Detroit?
(a) Octopus
(b) Cat
(c) Hen
(d) Dog

5. Which word does Gertie use to describe the type of carving Gertie does not do?
(a) Impersonal
(b) Necessary
(c) Frivolous
(d) Practical

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gertie dream of carving?

2. From what type of wood does she want to use to carve the man?

3. How long has Clovis been gone at the beginning of chapter six?

4. Which of the following is the best definition for tongue-tied?

5. Who tells Gertie that she cannot whip them as she threatened?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to ruin Gertie's dream of owning Tipton Place?

2. Why had Gertie been saving money for years?

3. What is evident that both Clovis and Gertie share?

4. What does Reuben say when Gertie tells him of her hope to have their own farm?

5. After the teachers tell Gertie not to worry about her children because they will adjust, what does Gertie wonder?

6. What does Gertie think about the idea that Clovis would be working in one of the factories?

7. Why do you think Gertie wants to avoid her mother?

8. Why doesn't Gertie tell her husband that she performed the surgery?

9. What does the doctor immediately realize that Amos has?

10. Why does the boy that Gertie and Cassie meet on the way to school tell Gertie she should not tell lies?

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