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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through English Creek Part 1, Pages 36-102.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Stanley's pack horse?
(a) Pony.
(b) Jick.
(c) Mouse.
(d) Bubbles.

2. What is the real first name of Mac?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Alec.
(c) Earl.
(d) Varick.

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

4. Who ultimately skins most of the dead sheep?
(a) Canada Dan.
(b) Alec.
(c) Stanley.
(d) Jick.

5. The morning after counting sheep with Dode, what does Mac do to anger Jick?
(a) He burns their breakfast.
(b) He mistakenly called Jick "Dode."
(c) He treats Jick like a child.
(d) He mistakenly called Jick "Alec."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mac's occupation, as the novel begins?

2. The day after the argument at the McCaskill dinner table, Mac sends Jick to check on whose ranch?

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

4. What is Mac's long-standing bet whenever he and his sons go fishing?

5. What section of the National Forest is still scarred from a fire in 1910, as described in Part 1?

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