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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Terry looking for after hearing her mother needed radiation?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Solace.
(c) Love.
(d) Justice.

2. What saved the Mormon pioneers when their wheat fields were being destroyed?
(a) Gulls.
(b) Blankets.
(c) Prayers.
(d) Rain.

3. What did the author's family do for vacations when she was a child?
(a) Took road trips.
(b) Flew to exotic locations.
(c) Went camping.
(d) Visited relatives.

4. Where did the author's mother have a tumor?
(a) Her head.
(b) Her back.
(c) Her arm.
(d) Her abdomen.

5. Why was the author surprised when her mother agreed to use chemotherapy?
(a) She had been refusing it.
(b) She had talked her sister out of it.
(c) She was afraid of it.
(d) She didn't believe in it before.

6. What enraged Diane when she was ill?
(a) That she was dying.
(b) That her doctor lied to her.
(c) That her family could not accept her illness.
(d) That she was in so much pain.

7. What information did the author give at the beginning of each chapter?
(a) Her age.
(b) The location of her family.
(c) The year.
(d) The lake levels.

8. Who did Diane know with a brain tumor?
(a) A friend.
(b) A cousin.
(c) An aunt.
(d) A brother.

9. How did the author describe her mother's chemotherapy treatments?
(a) Strange.
(b) Miserable.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Horrible.

10. What did the author test about the Great Salt Lake?
(a) The foliage around the water.
(b) The buoyancy in the water.
(c) The health of the water.
(d) The salinity of the water.

11. Why does the author describe the Great Salt Lake in the way she does?
(a) It is pure.
(b) It is shrinking.
(c) It has no outlet to the ocean.
(d) No animals can live around it.

12. What makes the Great Salt Lake freezable?
(a) The cold temperatures.
(b) The influx of fresh water.
(c) All of these.
(d) The decreased salinity.

13. How many species of birds use the refuge?
(a) 158.
(b) 88.
(c) 208.
(d) 108.

14. To whom did Terry compare Antelope Island?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Her father.

15. What is the first chapter called?
(a) The Great Salt Lake.
(b) Great Grandma.
(c) Burrowing Owls.
(d) Panthers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What killed the wheat fields of the early Mormon pioneers?

2. What kind of gulls were used as a chapter title?

3. Why did the author think her mother couldn't get sick?

4. What causes the depths of the Great Salt Lake to change?

5. What was the second option when the lake exceeded the limits?

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