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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. What did Roy hate about harvest time?
(a) He and his children couldn't do it on their own.
(b) It was when town was overrun with tourists.
(c) Harvest time meant winter was coming.
(d) The labor was back-breaking.

2. What was the name of the boy Ada gave birth to?
(a) Alston.
(b) Lyman.
(c) Randall.
(d) Donall.

3. Who does the reporter say Sandy fought with on the night of the fire?
(a) The firefighters.
(b) His wife.
(c) A police officer.
(d) His neighbor.

4. What event occurred in 1941?
(a) The Roscoe barn burned down.
(b) Pearl Harbor was bombed.
(c) Oil was found on the Goodnough property.
(d) Edith gave birth.

5. What does the reporter ask Sandy in regards to the Goodnough fire?
(a) Whether it was deliberate.
(b) Whether it was arson.
(c) Whether Sandy had set it.
(d) Whether it destroyed the whole house.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the man who approaches Sandy in Chapter 1 say he is from?

2. Who did Edith send Roy to see in Chapter 4?

3. Why did Lyman ask John for a ride to town in Chapter 6?

4. What does Sandy note about the photos of the Goodnough family?

5. How many fingers did Roy lose in the cutting machine accident?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Edith decide not to marry John?

2. How did Ada and Hannah become friends?

3. Where did Lyman go after leaving Holt?

4. How did Roy try to manipulate his daughter into refusing John's proposal?

5. Why did John and Sandy take Lyman to the train station in Chapter 6?

6. What did John see in the field as he and Sandy drove past the Goodnough farm in Chapter 6?

7. What happened to Ada in 1914, and how did Roy seem to feel about it?

8. What does the reporter ask Sandy, which prompts Sandy to kick him off his land?

9. What does Sandy say was unique about how Lyman ran the Goodnoughs' farm?

10. Who approaches Sandy Roscoe at the beginning of the book, and why?

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