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

2. What do Stew Meat, Adam, Polly and Rowena realize?
(a) Adam has a vision of his family's farm drying up.
(b) Rowena feels like a great weight is lifted off her shoulders.
(c) That Stew Meat's card is no good.
(d) Polly can speak normally.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Sam learn in the library?

2. What does Pa say when he comes in from the cornfield?

3. What happens when Rowena's parents investigate?

4. What does Sam say when Rowena asks him to wait until she returns?

5. What does Sam take to the barn to keep dry?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens when Polly becomes desperate?

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

5. What does Adam hear as he is going to bed and what does his pa say about it?

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

7. What does Adam hear about the well on his family's farm and what does he suggest to his pa about the situation?

8. What does Adam promise his mother and what does this promise prompt Adam to do?

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

10. How do the three young people turn out?

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