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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. Who is Car's foreman?

2. How old was the person the narrator found her husband cheating on her with in A Lonely Coast?

3. Aladdin become sick with ___________.

4. What young man is against cattle in the West and wrote a book about his opinions in The Governors of Wyoming?

5. Ottaline thinks she hears ___________________talking to her.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Aladdin take over the ranch in The Bunchgrass Edge of the World?

2. Where does Shy return from in The Governors of Wyoming? Where does he say he's been?

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

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

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

6. What events happen at the ending of A Lonely Coast?

7. What does Mrs. Croom find in the attic?

8. What leads to trouble with Shy and Wade in The Governors of Wyoming? Who runs away?

9. How does Ottaline meet her "knight" in The Bunchgrass Edge of the World?

10. What is suggested by the ending of 55 Miles to the Gas Pump?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the subject of gender in the stories of Close Range: Wyoming Stories. How are women and men portrayed differently? How do time and place affect this difference?

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

Describe the Touch family in The Bunchgrass Edge of the World. Who is the patriarch of the family? How did the power change hands?

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