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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages: 125-176.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a jick?
(a) A jack that shares the color of the jack of trumps in some card games.
(b) A dance, popular in the 1920s.
(c) A device used for shearing sheep.
(d) A horse-drawn wheel and axle, used for haying.

2. What family occupies the original McCaskill home in Montana, as the novel begins?
(a) The Heaneys.
(b) The Reeses.
(c) The Withrows.
(d) The Hebners.

3. What is Alec's special talent?
(a) Working with numbers.
(b) Shearing sheep.
(c) Preaching.
(d) Singing.

4. After leaving Canada Dan, why does Stanley scold Jick when he starts to open the gate to a cabin?
(a) It's dangerous to touch a wire fence during an electrical storm.
(b) The gate has a sign that states, "No Trespassing."
(c) The owner of the cabin could have a weapon.
(d) The cabin would be dangerous shelter in a storm, due to its tin roof.

5. How are Marie and Toussaint related?
(a) Sister and brother.
(b) Wife and husband.
(c) Daughter and father.
(d) Granddaughter and grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Stanley hang behind Jick and disappear frequently, as the two ride to meet Canada Dan?

2. What is the occupation of Max Vennaman?

3. Who reveals to Jick, during the Fourth of July Picnic, that he knows Jick drank whiskey with Stanley?

4. In the morning after spending his first night in a cabin with Stanley, Jick sets off for what destination?

5. Jick's parents allow him to ride which horse into town on the Fourth of July?

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