BRIDES BONNET
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1. Why did Sarah want to see the sheep?
A) She had never touched one.
B) She wanted to cut some wool.
C) She wanted to compare wool to seal skin.
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2. When might the wedding be?
A) Spring
B) Winter
C) Summer
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3. What did Sarah teach Anna to do while Papa plowed?
A) swim
B) braid her hair
C) sew
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4. Sarah cried when she found a dead lamb because
A) The mother had deserted her lamb.
B) Sara was homesick
C) The turkey buzzards were coming.
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5. What did Anna dream in the filed after swimming?
A) The field was salty ocean waves.
B) Sarah was happy.
C) Caleb was swimming.
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6. Did Old Bess or Jack make a better work horse?
A) Jack
B) Neither one
C) Old Bess
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7. What did Caleb do while waiting for Sara to come?
A) read a book
B) sand old songs
C) Rolled a marble back and forth
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8. When Papa read the letter, Caleb smiled and
A) asked if Sarah could cook.
B) asked if Sara sings
C) went to his room to think
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9. How had they prepared Sarah's room?
A) dried yellow flowers in a vase
B) WIth a quilt and dried flowers.
C) With a quilt and a blue flx rub.
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10. What did Anna think was the worst thing about Caleb?
A) He asked too many questions.
B) Mama died the morning after he was born.
C) He was homely.
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11. What was missing in Sarah's picture for William?
A) hail
B) flowers
C) the colors of the sea
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12. What did Papa bring for Sarah after the neighbors left?
A) more flowers
B) the chickens
C) first roses of summer
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13. When did Anna know the chickens were not for eating?
A) When Sarah said they were skinny
B) When Sarah asked what to name them
C) When Papa said they were to lay eggs
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14. For whom did Sarah buy the colored pencils?
A) Caleb and Anna
B) Sarah
C) Everyone
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15. What did Caleb do when Sarah returned from the wagon ride?
A) complain about waiting
B) ask what she had brought him
C) burst into tears
Who is telling the story?
Caleb asks Anna about..
2
How did Jacob's wife die?
3
Which description of Sarah is NOT accurate (true)?
4
The children do not like Sarah.
5
Whose point of view is the story told from?
6
Sarah teaches the children..
7
Sarah loves animals.
8
Where is Sarah from?
9
Which is NOT one of their pet's names?
10
What do they make "dunes" out of?
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Caleb asks Anna about..
o
A.
How to read
o
B.
When he was born
o
C.
How to bake
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2.
How did Jacob's wife die?
o
A.
During childbirth
o
B.
She was struck by lighting during a squall
o
C.
She was fatally injured in a farming accident
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3.
Which description of Sarah is NOT accurate (true)?
o
A.
She is brave
o
B.
She is kind
o
C.
She is mild mannered
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4.
The children do not like Sarah.
o
A.
True
o
B.
False
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5.
Whose point of view is the story told from?
o
A.
Sarah
o
B.
Anna
o
C.
Caleb
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6.
Sarah teaches the children..
o
A.
How to read
o
B.
How to swim
o
C.
How to chop wood
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7.
Sarah loves animals.
o
A.
True
o
B.
False
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8.
Where is Sarah from?
o
A.
Iowa
o
B.
Texas
o
C.
Maine
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9.
Which is NOT one of their pet's names?
o
A.
Seal
o
B.
Sam
o
C.
Nick
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10.
What do they make "dunes" out of?
o
A.
Hay
o
B.
Snow
o
C.
Leaves
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11.
Sarah wants to learn..
o
A.
How to swim
o
B.
How to drive a wagon
o
C.
How to bake bread
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12.
In what season will Jacob and Sarah marry?
o
A.
Winter
o
B.
Fall (autumn)
o
C.
Summer
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13.
Papa says that when the preacher asks if Papa will take Sarah to be his wife,
he will answer_______.
o
A.
Ayuh
o
B.
I do
o
C.
I will
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Caleb asks Anna about..
o
A.
How to read
o
B.
When he was born
o
C.
How to bake
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2.
How did Jacob's wife die?
o
A.
During childbirth
o
B.
She was struck by lighting during a squall
o
C.
She was fatally injured in a farming accident
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3.
Which description of Sarah is NOT accurate (true)?
o
A.
She is brave
o
B.
She is kind
o
C.
She is mild mannered
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4.
The children do not like Sarah.
o
A.
True
o
B.
False
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5.
Whose point of view is the story told from?
o
A.
Sarah
o
B.
Anna
o
C.
Caleb
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6.
Sarah teaches the children..
o
A.
How to read
o
B.
How to swim
o
C.
How to chop wood
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7.
Sarah loves animals.
o
A.
True
o
B.
False
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8.
Where is Sarah from?
o
A.
Iowa
o
B.
Texas
o
C.
Maine
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9.
Which is NOT one of their pet's names?
o
A.
Seal
o
B.
Sam
o
C.
Nick
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10.
What do they make "dunes" out of?
o
A.
Hay
o
B.
Snow
o
C.
Leaves
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11.
Sarah wants to learn..
o
A.
How to swim
o
B.
How to drive a wagon
o
C.
How to bake bread
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12.
In what season will Jacob and Sarah marry?
o
A.
Winter
o
B.
Fall (autumn)
o
C.
Summer
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13.
Papa says that when the preacher asks if Papa will take Sarah to be his
wife, he will answer_______.
o
A.
Ayuh
o
B.
I do
o
C.
I will
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Papa puts an ad in the paper for a:
o
A.
Horse
o
B.
Nanny
o
C.
Wife
o
D.
House keeper
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2.
Caleb likes to ask Anna about:
o
A.
How to do things.
o
B.
What he was like when he was born.
o
C.
Homework.
o
D.
How to fix things.
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3.
Sarah brings the children:
o
A.
New clothes
o
B.
Apples
o
C.
A bag full of small cystals
o
D.
A shell and a stone
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4.
Sarah helps Papa fix the ________ because she is a good ___________.
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5.
Caleb thinks that Sarah will like him and Anna because:
o
A.
They are nice children.
o
B.
She has never had children before.
o
C.
They made her a present.
o
D.
They have been writing to her.
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6.
In the summer, Sarah asks Caleb and Anna to:
o
A.
Tell her about their mother.
o
B.
Do their chores.
o
C.
Talk about a writer.
o
D.
Tell her about winter.
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7.
Maggie tells Sarah that it's wrong to be lonely.
o
A.
True
o
B.
False
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8.
Caleb and Anna are scared that Sarah will:
o
A.
Bring her brother.
o
B.
Not like them.
o
C.
Miss the sea or not like their house.
o
D.
Hate their pets (the dogs)
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9.
When Sarah dries flowers for the winter, Caleb hopes Sarah will:
o
A.
Use the flowers to make the house prettier.
o
B.
Teach them about wildflowers.
o
C.
Make something out of them.
o
D.
Stay with them and be with them in the winter.
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10.
Caleb was afraid Sarah would leave because he was too loud and pesky
and the house was too small.
o
A.
True
o
B.
False
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11.
Sarah tells Caleb and Anna she will:
o
A.
Teach them to swim.
o
B.
Ride horses with them.
o
C.
Take them to the sea.
o
D.
Teach them how to read.
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12.
Anna hopes that Sarah will:
o
A.
Do all of the housework.
o
B.
Like to sing.
o
C.
Bake pies.
o
D.
Teach her how to read.
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13.
Sarah brought back from town:
o
A.
Two new pigs.
o
B.
A new dress.
o
C.
Plants for the garden.
o
D.
Colored pencils.
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14.
Sarah looks sad when she:
o
A.
Getting a letter from her brother.
o
B.
Listens to the sea in a shell.
o
C.
Looks at drawings of the sea.
o
D.
Hears someone else talk about the sea.
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15.
When Caleb tells Sarah he thought she was leaving, Sarah says she:
o
A.
Will be leaving on the next train.
o
B.
Wanted to live in town.
o
C.
Would miss her new family more than she misses the sea.
o
D.
Will not leave until winter is over.
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16.
Papa teaches Sarah to:
• cut the wool from the sheep. • make
bread and cheese. (your response) • plow the fields. (correct answer)
• plant a garden
o
A.
Plant a garden
o
B.
Plow the fields.
o
C.
Cut the wool from the sheep.
o
D.
Make bread.
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17.
When Sarah goes to town, Caleb is afraid she will get hurt in the
wagon.
o
A.
True
o
B.
False
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18.
Papa tells Anna and Caleb about Sarah after:
o
A.
The children say they want a new mother.
o
B.
Caleb asks him why he doesn't sing anymore.
o
C.
Matthew tells Papa how happy he is.
o
D.
The children say they want a new mother.
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19.
Caleb wants to know if Sarah will bring:
o
A.
The sea with her.
o
B.
Presents for him and Anna.
o
C.
Her brother.
o
D.
Another pet.