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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Adam, Polly and Rowena want when the come into Stew Meat's store?
(a) His help.
(b) Some groceries.
(c) Advice.
(d) Charity for Adam's family who have been rendered homeless.

2. What do Rowena's parents hear about the same time that Adam, Polly and Rowena are at Stew Meat's store?
(a) A loud pop.
(b) Someone yelling "alleluia".
(c) A strange sound in the woods.
(d) A scream.

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

4. Why does Adam have to go down to the river regularly?
(a) To fish for his family's meals.
(b) To haul water.
(c) To work on a dam he is building to divert water to the fields.
(d) To collect river rocks to build a pool.

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

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

7. What does Rowena mutter when Adam sits behind her in class?
(a) That Polly is the cause of her problems.
(b) Something about stuck feet.
(c) That Adam better be a lucky boy if he uses his card.
(d) That Henry deserves his fate.

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

9. What has Sam been unsuccessful doing?
(a) Finding a counter to the magic that changed Henry.
(b) Contacting a witch for help.
(c) Convincing Mr. Jervis that Henry left town.
(d) Convincing Henry's wife he is not in the town.

10. What does Adam doubt about Uncle Poot?
(a) That he can actually dowse for water.
(b) That he can build a better dam than Adam.
(c) That he really knows anything about engineering.
(d) That he will arrive this time since he did not last time.

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

12. What does Adam think is unfair?
(a) That his older brother gets to be in the navy and he has to be home working on the farm.
(b) The way the other kids laugh at him for helping out his parents.
(c) The situation in his family.
(d) The way he gets penalized in school when he's later because of working on the farm.

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

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

15. What does Adam's father refuse to do?
(a) Built a holding pond for rain water.
(b) Let Adam consult a well digger about a new well.
(c) Get water from a spring on a neighboring farm.
(d) Let Adam go to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the card?

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

3. What do Adam's parents realize?

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

5. What does Adam finally decide to do about the situation at home?

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