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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 Pa do when the people of Coven Tree arrive to help?
(a) Cries in gratitude.
(b) Yells at them.
(c) Refuses their aid.
(d) Tells them what needs to be done.

2. What is Ma doing in the morning?
(a) Talking on the phone to FEMA.
(b) Wrapping up the family silver.
(c) Making breakfast on the big cookstove.
(d) Crying in her bedroom.

3. Why is Rowena unable to go anywhere?
(a) She has sprained her ankle.
(b) She has to take care of Henry.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She is embarrassed about Henry.

4. What is the situation when Adam wakes the next morning?
(a) The house is surrounded by water.
(b) His father has driven the wagon out of the valley.
(c) His parents are in a boat tied the front porch.
(d) The water has all receded.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Adam, Polly and Rowena's mental state?

2. Of what is Adam convinced?

3. What does Adam think is unfair?

4. What does Rowena hear about Adam Fiske?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Rowena learn the truth about Henry's actions to her when he would visit Rowena's pa?

3. What does Stew Meat realize and what does he do?

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

5. Why does Adam's pa make a raft and what do they do with the raft?

6. What does Sam say he's been doing in the library and with what result?

7. What happens when Adam tries the dowsing stick a few times and what is his mother's response to what he tells her about it?

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

9. What does Adam start doing for his mother and how does he frighten himself?

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

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