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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reaction when Crazy Alen first starts playing jokes on the other men?
(a) The men are angry.
(b) The foreman threatens to fire him.
(c) The men try to come up with better jokes.
(d) The men laugh.

2. For what does Uncle David say the rivers were used?
(a) Water supply for fighting fires.
(b) Water for the animals that.
(c) Ice roads.
(d) A place to trap.

3. What does Alida ask David the first time he sees her?
(a) How he's doing.
(b) His dog's name.
(c) His name.
(d) Where he's from.

4. What is Alida carrying the first time David sees her?
(a) A jar of milk wrapped in a sheet.
(b) A pot of soup.
(c) A gift.
(d) A towel and loaves of bread.

5. What seems to happen to Uncle David when he looks up toward the sun?
(a) He seems to age.
(b) He seems ready to die.
(c) He seems to find some inner peace.
(d) He seems to get younger.

6. What is the final line of Uncle David's story about Crazy Alen?
(a) The end.
(b) And everyone laughed.
(c) And that is the story of Crazy Alen.
(d) And no one ever played a better joke.

7. According to Uncle David, what is the story of the woodcutter really about?
(a) The cutting of a huge forest.
(b) The differences between then and today.
(c) A young man.
(d) The method of replanting trees.

8. What is Uncle David carrying when he returns from the granary?
(a) A shovel.
(b) A saw.
(c) Two axes.
(d) A saddle.

9. What does he say her eyes are like?
(a) A meadow.
(b) A lake.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Ice.

10. What are some of the troubles that strike the village after Orud's death?
(a) Locusts arrive.
(b) The women are unable to have children.
(c) Poisonous snakes infest the region.
(d) Their crops fail.

11. Where is the special place Wayne and Eldon sometimes meet to talk?
(a) In the meadow near the barn.
(b) Under their bed.
(c) At the back of the granary.
(d) In the hayloft.

12. Where is Alida taking what she's carrying the first time David sees her?
(a) To the woods.
(b) To a woman who has just had a baby.
(c) To a sick neighbor.
(d) To a child having a birthday.

13. How does Uncle David end the story of the woodcutter?
(a) He says it was just a story.
(b) He says the man grew old.
(c) He says the man froze to death.
(d) He says the man is still cutting wood today.

14. Where do Eldon and Wayne have a fight a few days after Wayne is angry at Uncle David?
(a) In the winter room.
(b) In the horse corral.
(c) In their bedroom.
(d) In the hayloft.

15. Who built Alen's cabin?
(a) No one knows.
(b) The men from the camp.
(c) Some settlers from years earlier.
(d) Alen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of trouble does Mother say a neighbor is having?

2. What color is Alida's hair?

3. What does Uncle David say happens to spit in the coldest part of winter?

4. What is Uncle David doing the first time he sees Alida?

5. How does Wayne stop Eldon from leaving the barn?

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