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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 name of Hans Olsa's wife?
(a) Sorine.
(b) Dagney.
(c) Rane.
(d) Beret.

2. Who in Per Hansa's family believes the family should travel back east for the winter?
(a) Store-Hans.
(b) Beret.
(c) Ola.
(d) Per Hansa.

3. What does Per Hansa name the pony that is given to him by the Indian chief?
(a) Patches.
(b) Injun.
(c) Brindlesides.
(d) Rosie.

4. Where do the settlers wait for Per Hansa to return from searching for the cows?
(a) At Hans Olsa's house.
(b) By the creek.
(c) At Henry Solum's house.
(d) At Beret's house.

5. What is the first crop that Per Hansa wants to plant on his land?
(a) Corn.
(b) Beans.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name on the stake that Per Hansa finds in the ground at Tonseten's southwest corner?

2. Where do the settlers have to go to make their claim to the land official?

3. Why do the men have to take a trip to town in the beginning of Book 1, Chapter 3?

4. What does the name And-Ongen mean?

5. What is the name of the Hansas' rifle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Beret change in the last chapter of the book?

2. What happens to Beret after she comes to know the minister and after he leaves?

3. In Book 1, Chapter 5, what does Per Hansa discover in Worthington that so delights him? How does he come upon it and what does he decide to do?

4. What is Beret's reaction when the minister tries to baptize Peder Seier? Explain her reaction.

5. What are the hardships of pioneer life as described in the beginning of Book 2, Chapter 4?

6. What happens to the Irish frontiersmen after their fight with the settlers of Spring Creek over the land?

7. What is Beret Hansa's emotional/mental state in Book 1, Chapter 1 of the novel? Why?

8. What happens to Hans Olsa in the final chapter of the book?

9. What is the story of the man and woman who come to Spring Creek with the woman tied up in the wagon?

10. Why is Beret so afraid when Per Hansa leaves the settlement to go on trips?

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