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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Karl feel when he sees Robert?
(a) Angry.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Relieved he is home.
(d) Curious.
2. What has Kristina ordered the children to do?
(a) Follow Robert.
(b) Get the laundry hung out.
(c) Stay away from the lake.
(d) Pull the weeds in the vegetable garden.
3. What does Robert believe will happen when Karl finds out the money is good?
(a) Kristina will love Robert.
(b) Karl will blow it on farming.
(c) Their life will be easier.
(d) Karl won't criticize him any longer.
4. Where do Karl and Kristina put the money?
(a) In a large storage chest.
(b) Under their mattress.
(c) Buried in the back.
(d) In the vegetable shed.
5. What kind of things would Karl like to use the cash to buy?
(a) Oxen and farm implements.
(b) A trip back to Sweden.
(c) Clothes for the family.
(d) A new house.
6. How did Arvid and Robert pay for their steamship passage?
(a) Washing dishes and helping in the kitchen.
(b) Working in the broiler room.
(c) Working as deck hands.
(d) Working as cabin stewards.
7. What does Robert call the money he gave Karl?
(a) Blood money.
(b) Dirty money.
(c) Pocket money.
(d) Death money.
8. What does Robert say when Karl asks him about Arvid's watch?
(a) Robert noticed it was missing.
(b) Arvid sent it with him.
(c) Arvid is in St. Louis.
(d) That he accidentally killed Arvid.
9. Where do Mario and Robert go from the desert?
(a) St. Joseph.
(b) Back to St. Louis.
(c) Tucson.
(d) California.
10. What bothers Karl the most about what Robert hasn't said?
(a) He has not said what he is going to do now.
(b) He has not told them what is wrong with himself.
(c) He has not told them exactly how he got the money.
(d) He has not told them Arvid's fate.
11. How do Robert and Arvid survive the winter?
(a) They spend most of the winter in jail.
(b) Working on a farm.
(c) Working for the city.
(d) Living with Robert's girlfriend.
12. What kind of work is Robert thinking about doing?
(a) Pressman.
(b) Opening a general store.
(c) Farming.
(d) Banking.
13. Why was Karl late returning from Stillwater?
(a) He had to wait for the bank to check on his question about the money.
(b) He had trouble with the ox cart.
(c) He ran into some friends from Sweden.
(d) He was ill.
14. What does Robert think while he is soaking his feet?
(a) He was ripped off in Grand City.
(b) He is back in Sweden.
(c) He wishes he'd never left Sweden.
(d) Kristina hates him.
15. What does Kristina say about the money?
(a) It's not their money anyway.
(b) It makes no difference to the children.
(c) They aren't any poorer than they were.
(d) She doesn't have an opinion.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Robert get out of the desert?
2. What does Arvid tell Robert about Minnesota one night?
3. What does Robert say about his ear?
4. Why does Kristina ask Robert if his ear is bothering him?
5. What does Robert decide to do when two mules have escaped?
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