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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 does Joe Aguirre go to camp to tell Jack regarding his family?
(a) His wife had given birth.
(b) His uncle had pneumonia and might not make it.
(c) His father died.
(d) His wife had a miscarriage.

2. 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.

3. Why does Jack have a bruised jaw the day he leaves Brokeback Mountain?
(a) He tripped and fell while drunk.
(b) He fell off his horse.
(c) Joe Aguirre punched him.
(d) Ennis punched him.

4. What was Jack's highest level of education?
(a) Post-Graduate School.
(b) Some high school.
(c) College.
(d) Some college.

5. What position is Jack hired for on Brokeback Mountain the year he and Ennis meet?
(a) Herder.
(b) Camp tender.
(c) Cook.
(d) Foreman.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the only thing Ennis enjoys reading, as explained after he begins working at Brokeback Mountain?

3. What time does Ennis Del Mar wake up at the beginning of "Brokeback Mountain"?

4. Why is Jack told he must sleep with the sheep when he starts work at Brokeback Mountain?

5. Why does Ennis have to leave the ranch he has been living on at the start of "Brokeback Mountain"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the sheep one night in August when Ennis stayed at the main camp with Jack?

2. Where does Ennis say he will sleep the first night he stays at the main camp and how does Jack respond?

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

4. Why does Joe Aguirre cut Jack and Ennis's time at Brokeback Mountain short?

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

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

7. How does Ennis feel when riding back to his camp after an evening of whiskey and stories with Jack?

8. What year do Ennis and Jack meet? Where and why?

9. Where do Ennis and Alma move to after their first daughter is born and what does he do for work?

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

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