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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the first person narrator in the Epilogue?
(a) Sam.
(b) Polly.
(c) Stew Meat.
(d) Adam.

2. What does Sam feed Henry?
(a) Fertilizer.
(b) Milk.
(c) Soup.
(d) Lettuce.

3. Upon whom has Rowena come to rely?
(a) Polly.
(b) Adam.
(c) Her father.
(d) Sam.

4. Why does Adam harness the horses to the wagon?
(a) To give his friends a ride.
(b) To take a cage of chickens to sell at farmer's market.
(c) To go get water at the river.
(d) To take the infertile sow to the butcher.

5. What does Stew Meat do after he gets out his card?
(a) Gives it to Adam.
(b) Makes a wish.
(c) Gives it to Polly.
(d) Gives it to Rowena.

6. Who are two people who taunt Adam as he is driving the wagon?
(a) Agatha and Eunice.
(b) Leland and Lenora.
(c) No one taunts him since they admire him.
(d) Polly and Rowena.

7. What is happening to the valley?
(a) The trees are getting water logged and falling over.
(b) It is drying out.
(c) It is getting huge sinkholes.
(d) It is filling with water.

8. What does Pa say when he comes in from the cornfield?
(a) That a hole Pa dug spouted water.
(b) That mice are numerous in the corn field.
(c) That the crows ate most of the corn.
(d) That the corn has withered up.

9. Why is the farm in danger?
(a) It is not in danger.
(b) The loan note is due.
(c) It is in a valley and can be flooded.
(d) There is a wild fire approaching.

10. How does Polly seem to have been changed by her experience?
(a) She is only unkind to someone who deserves it.
(b) She will not go to church socials.
(c) She speaks politely to others.
(d) She does not seem to have changed.

11. What does Henry demand Rowena do?
(a) Focus on helping him.
(b) Getting the fire department out to help.
(c) Trying to pull him out of the ground.
(d) Finding a spell to change him back.

12. What does someone say about how the water problem might have been caused?
(a) Floods from melting snow.
(b) The dam upriver has sprung a leak.
(c) The reservoir has overflowed.
(d) Magic.

13. Why does Henry say he used to be so sweet to Rowena?
(a) Because she reminds him of his sister.
(b) Because she reminds him of his dead sweetheart.
(c) Because she was so nice to him.
(d) So her father would buy more machinery from Henry.

14. According to the title of Tale 3, Part 1, what is everywhere?
(a) Money.
(b) Water.
(c) Problems.
(d) Love.

15. What happens when Rowena's parents investigate?
(a) They find Henry Piper's watch in the woods.
(b) They find one of Henry Piper's shoes in the woods.
(c) They find one of Henry Piper's order forms in the woods.
(d) They find Henry Piper's briefcase in the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Henry's condition when Rowena checks on him after getting home?

2. About what does Sam learn in the library?

3. What does Adam's mother think when Adam tells her his discovery?

4. What does Adam doubt about Uncle Poot?

5. What does Adam learn from his father as he goes to bed?

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