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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 caused Ennis to stop going to school and to return to ranch work after his parent's death?
(a) His truck broke down.
(b) He failed all his classes.
(c) He found it boring.
(d) He had a baby.

2. What do Ennis and Alma name their first daughter?
(a) Jackie.
(b) Alma, Jr.
(c) Ennis, Jr.
(d) Ellis.

3. What is Joe Aguirre's position on Brokeback Mountain?
(a) Herder.
(b) Cook.
(c) Foreman.
(d) Camp tender.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Ennis think he might have to stay with at the start of "Brokeback Mountain"?

2. How does Joe Aguirre learn of Ennis and Jack's affair?

3. What does Jack say he would like to do with Ennis when he is passing through Riverton?

4. What word is used to describe both Jack and Ennis's manner and way of speaking at the start of "Brokeback Mountain"?

5. Who raised Ennis after his parent's died?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are Jack and Ennis unaware Joe Aguirre had done while they were making love on Brokeback Mountain?

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

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

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

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

7. What do Jack and Ennis know, despite not discussing it, after the first night they are intimate on Brokeback Mountain?

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

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

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

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