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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Stanley and Jick notice about the slope opposite the fire?
(a) It is too steep to climb.
(b) It is rocky, lacking anything that might burn.
(c) It has already burned.
(d) It is very hot.

2. What is Perry's winter job?
(a) Grocer.
(b) Bricklayer.
(c) Working in the lumber yard.
(d) Mending harnesses.

3. When Mac leaves to fight the final English Creek fire, what does Lisabeth reveal to Jick about Leona?
(a) Leona is ill.
(b) Leona is trying to decide whether to marry Alec or finish high school.
(c) Leona has found another man.
(d) Leona has left Alec.

4. At the end of Part 3, what grave announcement is made?
(a) A loved one has passed away.
(b) Another war has begun in Europe.
(c) Alec is missing.
(d) Another forest fire is burning in the Two.

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

6. On the morning when the new firefighting strategy is employed, by what time must Jick and Stanley evacuate?
(a) Noon.
(b) 10:00 in the morning.
(c) 7:00 in the evening.
(d) 1:00 in the afternoon.

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

8. Based on the new firefighting strategy, where is the fire crew creating a new fireline?
(a) Breed Butte.
(b) Phantom Woman Mountain.
(c) Rooster Mountain.
(d) They are not creating a fireline.

9. When Jick visits Alec at his ranch, how do the ranch hands decide which two should go into town with the foreman?
(a) Drawing straws.
(b) A jig competition.
(c) A game of cards.
(d) Picking numbers, 1 through 100.

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

11. Why is Jick not present when Alec returns home to say goodbye, before going off to war?
(a) Jick is in Gros Ventre, spending the night with Ray.
(b) Jick is on his first date with a girl.
(c) Jick is snowed in at a basketball tournament.
(d) Jick hides because he does not want to see Alec.

12. After a lightning storm on August 25, how many fires are burning in Mac's English Creek district?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

13. How does Stanley suggest Jick could measure an inch?
(a) The width of his belt.
(b) The width of a bridle.
(c) The length of a fish hook.
(d) The width of his thumb.

14. After leaving Alec and the ranch, Jick shares what thought with Ray?
(a) He has a crush on Leona.
(b) He thinks Alec might be ill.
(c) He thinks Alec should leave town.
(d) He doesn't think Alec and Leona will get married.

15. How does Jick compare his job to that of the firefighters?
(a) They are all physically exhausted.
(b) While Jick uses fire to cook food, the firefighters use food as fuel to fight fire.
(c) Their days stretch on as if weeks.
(d) As the fire has hunger for the forest, the firefighters have an epidemic of appetite.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Wisdom with, before being brought to the Reese Ranch for the 1939 haying season?

2. What is Wisdom's job on the hay crew?

3. In August, after haying season, Jick's mother is busy with what?

4. At Reese Ranch during haying season, what job is usually given to whichever Hebner boy happens to be twelve to fourteen years old?

5. During Jick's first close-up view of the fire, how does he describe the orange flames?

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