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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what time each day is Mac required to report to the Forest Service, indicating whether or not the fire is under control?
(a) 1:00 each afternoon.
(b) 10:00 each morning.
(c) Noon.
(d) 7:00 each evening.

2. 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 milkshake.
(c) The person who catches less than ten fish owes the others a grape soda.
(d) The person who catches less than twelve fish owes the others a milkshake.

3. Why did eighteen sheep in the care of Canada Dan die?
(a) They were attacked by wolves.
(b) They ate death camas, which are poisonous flowers.
(c) They died of thirst.
(d) They suffered from a flu-like illness.

4. Between lunch and dinner during their first full day at the camp, what does Stanley invite Jick to do?
(a) Share his whiskey.
(b) Share extra food from lunch.
(c) Take a walk with him.
(d) Sing along with him.

5. Who had reported that the local ranger had been drinking when Phantom Woman burned?
(a) Mac.
(b) Pete.
(c) Stanley.
(d) Good Help.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Part 2, how does Jick describe his Fourth of July?

2. Who had told the main character's parents, long ago, that he looked like "the jick of the family?"

3. From what country did the McCaskill family emigrate in the 1880s?

4. What is unusual about the paperwork Stanley submits for helping with the firefighting effort?

5. What sort of pilot is Ray?

(see the answer key)

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