2. How does the Forest Service plan to cut costs at the beginning of fire season n 1939?
(a) Allow smaller fires to burn themselves out.
(b) Reduce the number of forest rangers.
(c) Not assign fire guards unless things begin to burn.
(d) Cancel scheduled seeding programs.

3. What position does Stanley offer to fill in the firefighting effort?
(a) Fire lookout.
(b) Water carrier.
(c) Coordinator.
(d) Cook.

4. Who was fired from the Forest Service after Phantom Woman burned?
(a) Pete.
(b) Mac.
(c) Stanley.
(d) Good Help.

5. What is Jick's final news of Alec?
(a) He was living in China.
(b) He was lost at sea.
(c) He was killed in a desert in Tunisia.
(d) His plane crashed in the mountains near Germany.

6. How does Pete convince Good Help to leave the hay crew, without actually firing him?
(a) Pete offers to fire Wisdom and let Good Help do the work of two men.
(b) Pete convinces him that haying season is over.
(c) Pete explains he has to cut everyone's wages.
(d) Pete offers to fire Jick and let Good Help do the work of two men.

7. The morning after Mac joined the firefighters, what request does he send through his dispatcher?
(a) Two helecopters, extra lunches, and thirty volunteer firefighters.
(b) Forty volunteer firefighters, horses, extra lunches, and a cook.
(c) Fifty volunteer firefighters, extra lunches, and a cook.
(d) Fifty volunteer firefighters, extra lunches, and a helecopter.

8. Who dies while fishing?
(a) Pete.
(b) Alec.
(c) Mac.
(d) Stanley.

9. While waiting for school to start, what project does Jick undertake?
(a) Wallpapering his porch bedroom.
(b) Canning with his mother.
(c) Learning how to rope.
(d) Learning how to tan hide.

10. Who had told the main character's parents, long ago, that he looked like "the jick of the family?"
(a) Stanley.
(b) Pete.
(c) Alec.
(d) Toussaint.

11. What is unusual about the paperwork Stanley submits for helping with the firefighting effort?
(a) It is missing some pages.
(b) He uses a false last name.
(c) He crosses out and initials some paragraphs.
(d) He signs with an X.

12. When Jick sees Leona years later, why does she say that time has cut her value?
(a) She no longer has her girlish figure.
(b) Her family has lost their fortune.
(c) Her hair has changed from gold to silver.
(d) She has never married.

13. At Flume Gulch, when Jick catches Stanley drinking from a whiskey bottle, what does Jick learn?
(a) The bottle is filled with white soda.
(b) The bottle is filled with sugar water.
(c) The bottle is empty.
(d) The bottle is filled with water, only lightly laced with whiskey.

14. Because the crop looks so favorable in the summer of 1939, how does the "Gleaner" describe the local ranchers?
(a) They are giddy like a bride on her wedding day.
(b) They are grinning like a Christian holding four aces.
(c) They are happy like a farmer at haying season.
(d) They are chomping at the bit like a racehorse.

15. What is Alec's response, when Jick asks him to help their father fight the forest fire?
(a) He refuses.
(b) He explains he is about to leave town.
(c) He joins the firefighters.
(d) He ask his boss for permission, but is denied.