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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 does Adam decide to try?
(a) Digging a really deep hole to search for water.
(b) Using Uncle Poot's dowsing stick.
(c) Putting a little cow manure in each hole.
(d) Making the holes further apart so he does not need to dig so many.

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

3. What does Rowen suggest doing?
(a) Nothing as anything might hurt Henry more.
(b) Looking for Blinn.
(c) Watering Henry.
(d) Finding a witch to undo the curse.

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

5. Of what is Adam convinced?
(a) He does not want to go to school.
(b) He can fix the problem with the well.
(c) He'll be hauling water forever.
(d) He does not want to be a farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stew Meat realize?

2. Why does Adam harness the horses to the wagon?

3. What does Adam's father tell Adam the family will do?

4. What do Rowena's parents hear about the same time that Adam, Polly and Rowena are at Stew Meat's store?

5. What does Rowena do after remembering the day in Blinn's tent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the three young people turn out?

2. What does Adam's ma tell him when he goes down to breakfast?

3. What greets Adam when he wakes the next morning?

4. What does Sam bring back for Henry and what does he say when Rowena tells Sam about what Henry said to her?

5. How is Henry when Rowena returns from the party?

6. What does Stew Meat say happens just as he is closing his store?

7. What does one of the townspeople who come to see what is happening at Adam's family's farm say that causes Adam to feel guilty?

8. What does Sam say about Henry's stories?

9. What point of view is used in the Epilogue and who is the narrator?

10. What does Rowena tell Henry and Sam and what is Henry's response?

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