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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What day does Beret go into labor?
(a) Christmas Eve.
(b) New Year's.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Easter.

2. What does the minister think about Peder Seier's name?
(a) It is a silly name.
(b) It is a glorious name.
(c) It is a bad name.
(d) It is a blasphemous name.

3. What are the names of the couple that Tonseten married?
(a) Kristian Peterson and Jonie.
(b) Johannes Mostad and Josie.
(c) Hans Johan and Jennie.
(d) Mort Hanson and Julie.

4. Who comes to ask Per Hansa if he will make the trip to find the minister?
(a) Kjersti.
(b) Tonseten.
(c) Sorine.
(d) Ola.

5. Tonseten says that the settlers should take names that reflect what?
(a) Their occupations.
(b) Their Norwegian heritage.
(c) Their new settlement.
(d) Their personalities.

6. Where is Per Hansa headed to look for the minister?
(a) The Spring Creek settlement.
(b) Worthington.
(c) The James River settlement.
(d) Sioux Falls.

7. What does Per Hansa find when he goes to check on Beret after harvesting the wheat?
(a) She has made a large supper.
(b) She has run away with the children.
(c) She has burned the house down.
(d) She has barricaded the door.

8. How long do the locusts plague the settlers?
(a) Seventeen years.
(b) Six years.
(c) One year.
(d) Seven years.

9. What does Beret believe will become of herself and her baby?
(a) They will become very close.
(b) They will die in labor.
(c) They will be sent back East.
(d) Per Hansa will abandon them.

10. Who teaches Per Hansa how to fish?
(a) The Tronders.
(b) The Hallings.
(c) Hans Olsa.
(d) Tonseten.

11. What does the final chapter of the book open with?
(a) A discussion of Beret's illness.
(b) A discussion of life faced by the pioneers.
(c) An argument between Kjersti and Tonseten.
(d) A hunting scene involving Per Hansa.

12. What name does Per Hansa refuse to let Beret be known by?
(a) Hedmark.
(b) Harstad.
(c) Stavanger.
(d) Skarvholmen.

13. What are the clouds becoming to Beret as she stares into them?
(a) The face of a monster.
(b) A pony.
(c) A scene of her homeland.
(d) Cotton balls.

14. Who is Torkel Tallaksen?
(a) A Swedish man selling seed.
(b) A Norwegian newcomer with money.
(c) An Irish farmer with a large family.
(d) A cousin of Tonseten's.

15. Where are the settlers when the question of changing their names comes up?
(a) By Spring Creek.
(b) Per Hansa's house.
(c) Tonseten's house.
(d) Worthington.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much can Per Hansa buy furs for at the Indian settlement that sells them?

2. In what month does the minister arrive to the settlement?

3. When Per Hansa gets lost in the blizzard, what does he begin to have hallucinations of?

4. What does Beret persuade Per Hansa to build?

5. What does Per Hansa think his wife's strange behavior is caused by?

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