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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 the name of the ship that Rob and Angus take to America?

2. What is the name of the horse that falls into the water and drowns as Rob and Angus are boarding a ship for America?

3. What color uniforms do the crew wear on the ship Rob and Angus take to America?

4. How tall was the lighthouse that Alexander McCaskill helped to build?

5. What killed Angus's father and mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why don't Rob and Angus eat some of their sheep during the long winter of early 1891?

2. What did Angus's father's grandfather, Alexander McCaskill, help to build?

3. How do Rob and Angus claim the land that they want to homestead?

4. How does Susan Duff stop Daniel Rozier from putting garter snakes in the girls' outhouse at South Fork school?

5. Why in 1893, does the South Fork need a school teacher when the school year is close to beginning?

6. How do Angus and Rob have to travel to Gros Ventre to find Lucas?

7. How did Lucas lose his hands?

8. When Rob becomes interested in Nancy, how does Lucas solve that problem?

9. In 1890, why does Rob say there will be a year of good luck when Angus comes inside near midnight?

10. How do Rob and Angus decide whose house to build first?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Angus begins teaching at South Fork, the boys keep knocking over the girls' outhouse. Discuss why the boys begin knocking over the outhouse and how Angus stops them from knocking it over.

Essay Topic 2

When they marry, both Angus and Adair want children, soon and several. Discuss the importance of children to Angus and Adair.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Angus's and Adair's marriage.

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