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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages: 103-124.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As described in Part 1, Alec is employed by whom?
(a) Mac.
(b) Isaac.
(c) Wendell.
(d) Dode.

2. Garland Hebner is better known by what name?
(a) Slow Moving.
(b) Good Help.
(c) Good Time.
(d) Wisdom.

3. As Mac prepares to leave for a week, what does he almost forget?
(a) His diary.
(b) His lunch.
(c) His hat.
(d) To kiss his wife goodbye.

4. How does Mac describe the fact that Jick is starting to grow up?
(a) "You didn't just fall off the turnip truck."
(b) "You're dry behind the ears."
(c) "You're tall enough to need a bigger horse."
(d) "Your legs are long enough that they reach the ground."

5. During dinner at the McCaskill home early in Part 1, what is the subject of the family's argument?
(a) Jick does not want to count sheep with his father.
(b) Alec plans to marry Leona rather than go to college.
(c) Jick wants to quit high school.
(d) Alec plans to break his engagement.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Part 2, where is Mac required to go?

2. The day after the argument at the McCaskill dinner table, Mac sends Jick to check on whose ranch?

3. During Lisabeth's wagon trip as a child, where did she and her family sleep?

4. From what country did the McCaskill family emigrate in the 1880s?

5. What is Mac's occupation, as the novel begins?

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