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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disappoints Karl about Marta's wedding?
(a) The engagement was too short.
(b) He doesn't like her husband.
(c) Marta did not hug him when she left.
(d) The wedding was too expensive.

2. Which one of Karl's daughters wants to marry Klas?
(a) Gerda.
(b) Linnea.
(c) Marta.
(d) Evelina.

3. What is the possible reason that Karl and Kristina are not attacked by the Sioux Indians?
(a) The Sioux won't bother attacking for just two people.
(b) Karl had been kind to the Indians when they needed food.
(c) Karl has not been working and the farm looks deserted.
(d) Their farm is hidden away and out of the Sioux territory.

4. At the wedding, Jonas Petter tells a story about what?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) The blizzard of '35.
(c) A surrogate father.
(d) His boyhood.

5. What item does Klas Albert convince Karl to buy for the house?
(a) A vacuum cleaner.
(b) A washing machine.
(c) An apple corer.
(d) A kerosene lamp.

6. What body part is most injured when the oak tree falls on the person in #161?
(a) Arm.
(b) Back.
(c) Shoulder.
(d) Leg.

7. Who comes to Karl's house to chastise him for his carnal appetites which ultimately killed his wife?
(a) Ulrika.
(b) Birgit.
(c) Ana.
(d) Samuel.

8. Kristina tells Karl that she dreamed she was in ___________________.
(a) New York.
(b) Minneapolis.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Sweden.

9. What is Kristina suffering through at the beginning of Chapter XIII?
(a) Scarlet Fever.
(b) Depression.
(c) Influenza.
(d) Another miscarriage.

10. What does Kristina dream she is doing in her dream?
(a) Swinging on an ox thong.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Picking apples.
(d) Riding a horse.

11. Karl's home parish is suffering its worst crop failure in __________________.
(a) thirty-five years.
(b) fifty years.
(c) ten years.
(d) over 100 years.

12. In what month is Karl's oak stand cleared?
(a) June.
(b) July.
(c) November.
(d) April.

13. Where do the men evacuate the women for safety from the Indians?
(a) An underground tunnel.
(b) A fort.
(c) Minneapolis.
(d) The church.

14. Which of the following is NOT a topic included in the letter Karl sends to his sister?
(a) The capture of Lincoln's assassin.
(b) The assassination of President Lincoln.
(c) The victory of the Union army.
(d) The Sioux Indian war.

15. Karl builds a coffin for Kristina with boards that had been intended for what?
(a) A workshop.
(b) A new home.
(c) A smokehouse.
(d) A barn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which woman has been recently widowed?

2. How much money does the federal government promise to pay the Sioux Indians for their land?

3. Who is Klas Albert?

4. Back in Sweden, Ulrika was known as the parish _______________.

5. What name had Karl given to his farm originally?

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