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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. At the end of Chapter 11, who teaches Alice how to shoot a shotgun?
(a) Beth.
(b) Fred.
(c) Sven.
(d) Margery.

2. How many miles does Nancy comes to meet Margery in the Prologue?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

3. At the end of Chapter 6, who greeted Alice when she came home?
(a) No one.
(b) Bennett.
(c) Mr. Van Cleve.
(d) Annie.

4. How long was the voyage Bennett and Alice took to the United States after they married?
(a) 7 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 4 days.
(d) 6 days.

5. In Chapter 7, how many times did Mae Horner say she read through a book the day before?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does it take Alice to walk to Margery's in Chapter 11?

2. How far of a walk did Alice have to the library in Chapter 2?

3. What type of bird does Bennett think that Alice sees at the end of Chapter 3?

4. How long after Margery's sister Virginia married, did their mother die?

5. In Chapter 13, what day of the week does Pastor McIntosh come to speak to Alice?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, what did agents for land companies do in Kentucky?

2. In Chapter 11, what did Van Cleve do to Alice and why?

3. How did Alice persuade her father-in-law that she should help with the traveling library in Chapter 2?

4. How did Margery learn to read?

5. In Chapter 8, what did Garrett's mother say to Alice at Garrett's wake?

6. What encounter does Margery have in the Prologue, and how does she handle it?

7. Where was the little blue book kept in Chapter 9 when someone was not reading it?

8. In Chapter 9, why did Alice sleep in the dressing room?

9. In Chapter 5, how was Izzy doing as a librarian?

10. What questions does Alice ask Pastor McIntosh in Chapter 13 that he cannot answer?

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