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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. What is Jick's first meal after he leaves the scorched mountains?
(a) Fried chicken.
(b) A ham sandwich.
(c) Fried fish.
(d) Oyster stew.

2. What injury is suffered by a firefighter during Jick's first full day at the site?
(a) Burns on half of his body.
(b) A broken ankle and leg burns.
(c) A crushed arm and collarbone.
(d) A cracked skull.

3. At Reese Ranch during haying season, what job is usually given to whichever Hebner boy happens to be twelve to fourteen years old?
(a) Stacker team driver.
(b) Running the scatter rake.
(c) Lunch distribution.
(d) Stackman.

4. Which member of the hay crew is injured, as a result of Good Help's incompetence?
(a) His son, Clayton.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Jick.
(d) Pete.

5. Who had told the main character's parents, long ago, that he looked like "the jick of the family?"
(a) Stanley.
(b) Toussaint.
(c) Alec.
(d) Pete.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Forest Service plan to cut costs at the beginning of fire season n 1939?

2. What is Jick's final news of Alec?

3. What firefighting strategy does Stanley offer to Mac, following his observations about the opposite slope?

4. On the morning when the new firefighting strategy is employed, by what time must Jick and Stanley evacuate?

5. Who is the dispatcher at the ranger station?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the final scene of "English Creek," when Jick tells Stanley he's sorry about the way things went after the Phantom Woman fire, how does Stanley respond?

2. After Mac requests fifty firefighters and a cook, what positions are assigned to Stanley and Jick?

3. What, as revealed in Part 4, becomes of Jick's brother, Alec?

4. What do Stanley and Jick notice about the grassy slope opposite to the fire, when they hike over?

5. At the end of Part 3, what ominous announcement is made, and by whom?

6. What was the early relationship between Stanley and Mac, as revealed near the end of Part 3?

7. When Jick and Lisabeth eat dinner alone, while Mac fights the forest fire, what news does Lisabeth share about Leona?

8. Describe the final moments of Mac's life.

9. Why does Stanley suggest to Mac that their fireline should be moved to the top of the opposing slope, rather than the bottom of the slope that is currently on fire?

10. When Jick sees Alec at the Double W Ranch, what are Alec's professional and personal circumstances?

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