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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, pages 177-200.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the landscape of the Two country often described?
(a) A toupee of grass on a cranium of rock.
(b) Mountains squared off like a pair of dice.
(c) A pair of womanly mountains.
(d) A paradise, twice as beautiful as it ought to be.

2. Before the rodeo begins, what does Alec ask Jick to do?
(a) Ask his parents for forgiveness.
(b) Help him with his horse.
(c) Keep an eye on Leona.
(d) Be the best man at his wedding.

3. After mulling over his mother's wagon trip for a day, Jick leads his mother into discussing what topic?
(a) Her courtship with Jick's father.
(b) Alec.
(c) Montana history.
(d) A dispute between Pete and Mac.

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

5. During his third day of laboring on Mac's assignment, from whom does Jick hide?
(a) Isodor.
(b) Leona.
(c) Alec.
(d) Stanley.

Short Answer Questions

1. As "English Creek" begins, how old is the narrator?

2. During the second night Jick and Stanley stay at the abandoned cabin, what does Jick do for the first time?

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

4. Who is Mary Ellen?

5. As the novel begins, who is expected to attend college in the fall?

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