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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. What is Mac's long-standing bet whenever he and his sons go fishing?
(a) The person who catches less than twelve fish owes the others a grape soda.
(b) The person who catches less than ten fish owes the others a grape soda.
(c) The person who catches less than twelve fish owes the others a milkshake.
(d) The person who catches less than ten fish owes the others a milkshake.

2. As Mac prepares to leave for a week, what does he almost forget?
(a) His hat.
(b) To kiss his wife goodbye.
(c) His diary.
(d) His lunch.

3. What is the name of the local paper for the Two country?
(a) The "Gros Ventre Sentinel."
(b) The "Two Cents."
(c) The "Two Medicine Gazette."
(d) The "Gleaner."

4. In the evening after dinner with Pete, what does Jick read about in the local paper?
(a) New strategies for fighting forest fires.
(b) Gossip about his mother and other local ladies.
(c) A story from 25 years before, about Jick's mother and her family taking a wagon trip.
(d) A chronicle of Stanley's past.

5. How does Jick describe his father, regarding his relationship with the world?
(a) Over and under and over.
(b) Strained.
(c) Betwixt and between and beyond.
(d) Between and between and between.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Ray been hesitant, years ago, the first time Jick asked him to go fishing?

2. Through what are sheep herded for the purpose of counting?

3. How much money does Jick's father give him for spending on the Fourth of July?

4. During conversation on Thursday while Mac is away, how does Lisabeth describe Leona?

5. During his third day of laboring on Mac's assignment, from whom does Jick hide?

(see the answer key)

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