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Brokeback Mountain Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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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 state did Jack's hometown border?
(a) Wyoming.
(b) Montana.
(c) Utah.
(d) Idaho.

2. What does Joe point out to Ennis after paying him for his work on Brokeback Mountain?
(a) That he will not be hired again.
(b) Most of his sheep are gone.
(c) Some of the sheep he returned with are not the ones he went up with.
(d) His binoculars.

3. What happens one night when Ennis does not return to the sheep?
(a) Joe Aguirre fires Ennis.
(b) The sheep leave and get mixed up with another herd.
(c) Coyotes attack the sheep.
(d) Jack goes to sleep with the sheep in Ennis's place.

4. What does Jack ask Ennis before getting into his pickup truck and leaving Brokeback Mountain?
(a) He asks Ennis if he will be back next summer.
(b) He asks Ennis to go have a beer with him.
(c) He asks Ennis when he will see him again.
(d) He asks Ennis if he can break off his engagement with Alma.

5. Why does Joe shut down the camp early the year Ennis and Jack work on Brokeback Mountain?
(a) He saw what Jack and Ennis were up to.
(b) All the sheep got lost.
(c) A large storm is coming.
(d) Joe's mother died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joe Aguirre's position on Brokeback Mountain?

2. What phrase foreshadows what happens between Jack and Ennis in Jack's tent the night Ennis does not return to the sheep?

3. What does the narrator say both Jack and Ennis were "inured" (254) to when describing their backgrounds at the start of "Brokeback Mountain"?

4. With what organization do both Jack and Ennis sign up to get work the year they met?

5. How does Ennis reply to Jack's request in the letter he sent Ennis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What positions are Jack and Ennis hired for at Brokeback Mountain?

2. How did Ennis manage to get a license at age 14 and what stopped him from completing his sophomore year of school?

3. How long after their time at Brokeback Mountain does Ennis receive a letter from Jack and what does it say?

4. What does Ennis do to save himself a trip when he offers to sleep with the sheep at Brokeback Mountain?

5. What are Jack's days like when he has to set up camp with the sheep every night?

6. What does Jack notice when Ennis takes his clothes off to wash himself at the main camp at Brokeback Mountain?

7. Why does Ennis decide to stay at the main camp on the first night that he does not return to the sheep?

8. How does Ennis get ready to leave his trailer at the start of "Brokeback Mountain"?

9. Who does Ennis think he may have to stay with after moving off the ranch at the start of "Brokeback Mountain"?

10. Why does Ennis offer to take Jack's place and sleep with the sheep at Brokeback Mountain?

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