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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. Why does Hattie ask Traft to dance?
(a) To defuse a tense situation.
(b) To get him away from the Muellers.
(c) To ask him a personal question.
(d) She likes him.

2. What does Perilee accept from Hattie?
(a) A bag of wool.
(b) A rocker.
(c) A butter churn.
(d) A spinning wheel.

3. What does Hattie take to the Mueller's?
(a) Violet.
(b) Some garden tools.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Plug.

4. Who brought extra knitting needles for Hattie to use?
(a) The Reverend's wife.
(b) Mrs. Martin.
(c) Perilee.
(d) Grace Robbins.

5. How does Hattie write about her life in the letters she writes?
(a) Humorously.
(b) With angst.
(c) Dourly.
(d) With little emotion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What amuses Rooster Jim as he rides by as Hattie is plowing?

2. How does Hattie get to Montana?

3. Who arrives the next morning at Hattie's house?

4. Who picks up Hattie for the dance?

5. Who is Chester?

Short Essay Questions

1. What neighbor does Hattie meet in the local grocery store and what does he tell her?

2. What happens the next day after the dance to the Mueller's barn?

3. With what does Perilee leave Hattie as they drop her off at her new home, and what does Hattie give her in return?

4. What is the first homesteading lesson Hattie learns the next morning as she goes to draw water for her coffee?

5. Why do Chase and Mattie not stop in for their customary biscuits at Hattie's one day, and what does Hattie do?

6. Who arrives to pick Mattie up in Wolf Point, and why do they spend the night there?

7. How does Hattie defuse Traft's aggression towards Mr. Saboe?

8. Explain the situation that changes the friendly reception at the church for Hattie.

9. What is Hattie's newest challenge in homesteading, and how has Uncle Chester helped?

10. What happens when Perilee and the children go with Hattie to church?

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