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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. What is Car's last name?

2. What is Josanna's occupation?

3. Josanna was rumored to have _____________ .

4. Where does the group in A Lonely Coast decide to go bar hopping?

5. Car finds his wife sleeping with ______________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narration of Pair a Spurs. What does the exposition relate about Car?

2. How does Aladdin die in The Bunchgrass Edge of the World?

3. What is Car's first experience like being near the spurs in Pair a Spurs?

4. Describe Ottaline in The Bunchgrass Edge of the World. What is her ultimate objective?

5. What is the argument between Roany and Wade caused by?

6. What is the narrator's occupation in A Lonely Coast? What do the other women do for a living?

7. According to Ottaline's belief, what object talks to her The Bunchgrass Edge of the World? How does she find it?

8. What action is described in the beginning of 55 Miles to the Gas Pump?

9. Where do Josanna and others go to "bar-hop" in A Lonely Coast? What accident occurs?

10. In A Lonely Coast, who are the subjects?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the character of Leeland Lee in Job History. What are his objectives in life? What obstacles does he face? What are his relationships?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the symbolism and themes of the story The Half-Skinned Steer. What is significant about the caves and the story told by Mero's father's girlfriend?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the Tinsley family and the Dunmire family in People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water. How have their experiences in Wyoming differed? Why?

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