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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the calves fed?
(a) With a bucket.
(b) The book doesn't say.
(c) Their mamas feed them.
(d) With a baby bottle.

2. Why is the living room called the winter room?
(a) It's used as a bedroom except in the winter.
(b) It's only warm in the winter.
(c) It's where the family eats in the winter.
(d) The family spends the winter there.

3. What are the names of the two horses on the farm?
(a) Jim and Joe.
(b) Matilda and Martha.
(c) Stacker and Stumper.
(d) Jim and Stacker.

4. Why do Wayne and Eldon jump on the stacks of hay after it's cut?
(a) To be sure there aren't any animals hiding in the stacks.
(b) To make sure water can't seep into it.
(c) It's fun.
(d) To pack it down.

5. How many cleared acres are there on the family's farm?
(a) Ninety.
(b) One hundred twenty.
(c) Eighty-seven.
(d) Forty.

6. What do Wayne and Eldon throw snowballs at when they make snow forts?
(a) The dog.
(b) The dog, the chickens, and the cats.
(c) The chickens.
(d) The cats.

7. What time of day does Father leave for the fields?
(a) Around seven in the morning.
(b) Around eight-thirty in the morning.
(c) Just after it gets light.
(d) Before it gets light.

8. How old is Uncle David?
(a) Seventy-six.
(b) Sixty-seven.
(c) No one knows.
(d) Eighty.

9. In "Winter," Eldon says that he and Wayne have a fight. What was Eldon's injury from that fight?
(a) A bloody nose.
(b) Several bruises.
(c) A swollen ear.
(d) A black eye.

10. How many seagulls arrive each summer during plowing season?
(a) Maybe twenty or thirty.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Only a few.
(d) About a dozen.

11. Where do Eldon and Wayne put their mittens to dry?
(a) On a peg in the winter room.
(b) In the dryer.
(c) On the back of the stove.
(d) On the clothesline.

12. What causes Wayne's injury?
(a) Eldon hit him with a board.
(b) Eldon shoved him into a wall.
(c) Father hit him to make them stop fighting.
(d) Eldon hit him with his fist.

13. What is the book both Uncle David and Nels have by their beds?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The Complete Works of Shakespeare.
(c) A diary.
(d) The Farmer's Almanac.

14. Who comes to help the family when it's haying time?
(a) Everyone from miles around.
(b) No one.
(c) The Smiths.
(d) The Ransens.

15. What are the books Uncle David sometimes reads at the kitchen table at night?
(a) Old Farmer's Almanacs.
(b) No one knows.
(c) Western novels.
(d) A Bible and an encyclopedia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mother keep coffee hot when she takes it for Father's lunch?

2. What kind of drink does Mother bring for the picnic at the lake?

3. What is it about going to town that Eldon likes best?

4. Who oils the thrashing machine?

5. Why is the corn cultivated several times while it's still young?

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