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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is in the pair of pants that Adam hangs in the closet?
(a) A wad of dollar bills.
(b) Blinn's card.
(c) A few coins.
(d) A pipe and tobacco.

2. What kind of tree is Henry?
(a) Sycamore.
(b) Dogwood.
(c) Oak.
(d) Pine.

3. What is Adam, Polly and Rowena's mental state?
(a) Angry.
(b) Desperate.
(c) Jovial.
(d) Excited.

4. What does Rowena tell Sam and Henry?
(a) About the card.
(b) That she is not responsible for what happened to Henry.
(c) That she thinks the whole thing is quite hilarious.
(d) That she will find Blinn and fix things.

5. How does Adam's Pa react to the wish Adam made?
(a) Pa believes it is divine judgement.
(b) Pa is not angry.
(c) Pa says Adam could not have done this.
(d) Pa is irate.

6. What does Sam find near Henry?
(a) A bag of gold.
(b) A letter from a lawyer.
(c) Henry's briefcase.
(d) A bag of cookies.

7. About what is Adam unhappy?
(a) The sow only had two babies.
(b) A fox got three hens.
(c) The chickens are not producing many eggs.
(d) The well has gone dry.

8. What happens when Adam and Pa load the cookstove to take it away from the valley?
(a) It breaks the raft.
(b) It causes the wood to catch fire on the raft.
(c) It breaks apart when the water hits its hot surface.
(d) It burns Adam's hands.

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

10. What does Adam finally decide to do about the situation at home?
(a) Refuse to work anymore.
(b) Use Blinn's card.
(c) Leave home.
(d) Ask his pa to build a new well.

11. What happens if someone really irritates Polly?
(a) She slaps them rather than talking to them.
(b) She will speak sharply.
(c) She runs in the other direction.
(d) She is so nice they walk away.

12. What does Rowena wonder about Polly?
(a) If Polly would try to help her.
(b) If Polly is also in trouble from using her card.
(c) If Polly has been able to reverse the effect of using the card.
(d) If Polly is mad at her.

13. What does Adam learn from his father as he goes to bed?
(a) The water is almost to the top of the basement.
(b) The townspeople are trying to help build a sandbag wall.
(c) Water is coming in the basement.
(d) The water seems to be slowing.

14. What stories had Henry fabricated?
(a) About saving several people from death.
(b) His travel stories.
(c) About a girlfriend back home.
(d) The things the machinery he sells can do.

15. What does Adam notice at four neighboring farms?
(a) Lights going on.
(b) They are all willing to help Adam andhis family.
(c) They are having the same problem as Adam's family.
(d) They are gearing up to help harvest the corn from Adam's family's fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rowena mutter when Adam sits behind her in class?

2. What does Adam promise his mother to do?

3. Who suggests pulling up the weeds growing around Henry?

4. What does Pa do when the people of Coven Tree arrive to help?

5. Who is at Adam's house when he arrives with the wagon?

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