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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did one Doig family member emigrate other than the U.S.?

2. Where did the Indian tribes retreat to in the early years of settlement after leaving the area where Ivan and his father lived?

3. What mountain did Ivan and his parents live on?

4. When did Charlie and Ruth marry?

5. What would Ivan's mother do to keep him quiet and cool on hot afternoons?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who asked Charlie and Ivan to move in with him so Ivan could start school?

2. What surprised Ivan's teacher about him?

3. When did Bessie break her marriage?

4. What business did Charlie and Ruth run together?

5. What was different about Ruth from the other ranch cooks?

6. What two things during Ivan's early weeks in the first grade set off any interest within him?

7. What happened on Ivan's sixth birthday?

8. Can Ivan see the sickness to come in the photos of his mother?

9. Why were the clockless mountain summers over for Charlie Doig when Berneta had died?

10. What did a forest ranger say about Ivan's mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Ivan's Doig ancestors and his mother's ancestors. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what Ivan means when he says that "Memory is a set of sagas we live by, much the way of the Norse wildmen in their bear shirts."

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the marriages of Bessie and Tom, Charlie and Berneta, Charlie and Ruth, and Ivan and Carol. Use examples from This House of Sky.

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