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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Karl in Chapter 8?
(a) Forty.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Twenty-seven.

2. Why do the people meeting in Petrus' barn set aside a piece of land?
(a) For a cemetery.
(b) For a playground.
(c) For building a church.
(d) For a community center.

3. What does Kristina notice when Karl is leaving for Taylor Falls?
(a) The horse is limping slightly.
(b) Karl is limping.
(c) The red sun.
(d) Her son is flushed.

4. Why is Johan incoherent?
(a) Food poisoning.
(b) Hypothermia.
(c) Fever.
(d) He was hit in the head at the mill.

5. Why is Karl going to Taylor Falls?
(a) To have his grain milled.
(b) To have his millet ground.
(c) To purchase a new plow.
(d) To buy spring seeds.

6. Who arrives in the middle of the night?
(a) A minister of the Swedish Church.
(b) Arvad.
(c) Robert.
(d) Petrus.

7. What does Lydia ask about in her letter to Karl?
(a) If she can join him in America.
(b) His children.
(c) What to do with their elderly parents.
(d) Their brother Robert.

8. What does Karl buy from the lumber company?
(a) A mule.
(b) An ox.
(c) A horse.
(d) A two-man saw.

9. What is one of the inventions the newspaper writes about?
(a) Steam powered automobile.
(b) Refridgerator.
(c) Telephone.
(d) Telegraph.

10. What does Ulrika tell Kristina about an American husband?
(a) An American husband would make more money.
(b) He would not help her with woman's work.
(c) An American husband would have to go to the army.
(d) He would do some of her chores.

11. What does Ulrika's husband do?
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A druggist.
(c) A Baptist minister.
(d) A Episcopal priest.

12. What has Karl planted for use in the future for clothing?
(a) Flax.
(b) Hemp.
(c) Straw.
(d) Cotton.

13. What has Karl built for the second time for his family?
(a) A new carriage.
(b) A new house.
(c) A set of stairs.
(d) A new barn.

14. Why does Karl write the letter in question #70?
(a) He is angry.
(b) He is lonely.
(c) He wants some answers.
(d) He does it every year.

15. What does Kristina sometimes feel disappointed about when she wakes in the morning?
(a) She has to get up and start the day.
(b) She is in America.
(c) She is not able to cook the big breakfasts like they had in the old country.
(d) She is not pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do members of the community begin to meet in Petrus' barn?

2. What does Karl say about their food supply?

3. Why was Petrus punished in Sweden?

4. With whom does Kristina know she will not be close friends?

5. What does Petrus tell Kristina about Ulrika?

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