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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 color skirt does Anna wear to the dance at Angus's schoolhouse in 1897?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

2. What is the name of a town that is built by irrigation?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Valier.
(c) Augusta.
(d) Dutton.

3. Who is the first person that Lucas dances with at the dance at the South Fork schoolhouse in 1897?
(a) Mavis.
(b) Grace.
(c) Judith.
(d) Nancy.

4. What does Varick drink at the Medicine Lodge when Angus goes to talk with Lucas about the national forest?
(a) Sarsparilla.
(b) Root beer.
(c) Lemonade.
(d) Buttermilk.

5. What is Anna's mother's name?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Jane.
(c) Alice.
(d) Margaret.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does a forest ranger come to establish national forests west of Angus's place?

2. Who is asked to sing during a dancing exhibition at the South Fork schoolhouse dance in 1897?

3. Where were the wool shears made that Rob showed Angus before Leftover Day?

4. Where do Rob's and Angus's lambs travel after they are sold?

5. What is the name of the newspaper in Gros Ventre in 1907?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Angus believe it will be like to add a second person to his household?

2. How are the prices of wool and lambs in 1897?

3. How will the boundary of the national forest be delineated and patrolled?

4. Whose well-being did Rob have in mind when he suggested that Angus get groceries?

5. Why won't Anna marry Angus?

6. What is Leftover Day?

7. How does Varick do at school?

8. Why does it seem to Angus that sometimes he sees more of Scorpion than he sees of his new wife?

9. Does seeing Anna unattainable heal Angus's pang for her or make it worse?

10. How has Williamson been overusing the land?

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