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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before Jick leaves Alec and the ranch, what secret does Alec ask him to keep?
(a) Alec is a scatter raker, not a rider.
(b) Alec and Leona are eloping.
(c) Alec has a new girlfriend.
(d) Alec plans to leave town.

2. What position does Jick take in the firefighting effort?
(a) Assistant to Stanley.
(b) Fire lookout.
(c) Water carrier.
(d) Assistant to Mac.

3. What ultimately becomes of Ray, according to Jick, years later?
(a) He runs an insurance agency.
(b) He lives in China.
(c) He dies in a car crash.
(d) He owns his father's lumber yard.

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

5. When Mac and Jick leave the scorched mountains, where do they stop to eat?
(a) The Lunchery.
(b) The Medicine Lodge Saloon.
(c) The Double W Ranch.
(d) Sedgwick House.

6. Who is the mower on Jick's hay crew?
(a) Alec.
(b) Bud.
(c) Cyrus.
(d) Pete.

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

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

9. After returning home from the war, where does Jick briefly work as a ranger?
(a) Yellowstone National Park.
(b) Custer National Forest.
(c) Indian Head.
(d) The Two Medicine National Forest.

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

11. According to Pete, who is the only man who knows the mountains of the Two as well as Mac?
(a) Alec.
(b) Jick.
(c) Stanley.
(d) Pete.

12. 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 explains he has to cut everyone's wages.
(c) Pete offers to fire Jick and let Good Help do the work of two men.
(d) Pete convinces him that haying season is over.

13. In August, after haying season, Jick's mother is busy with what?
(a) Canning, pickling, and preserving food for the winter.
(b) Spinning wool and weaving.
(c) Teaching school.
(d) Writing a chronicle of Gros Ventre history.

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

15. Where does Jick fight in World War II?
(a) Japan.
(b) In a submarine.
(c) France.
(d) The Aleutians.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mac was a teenager, what was his relationship with Stanley?

2. What is Jick's first meal after he leaves the scorched mountains?

3. When Jick visits Alec at his ranch, how do the ranch hands decide which two should go into town with the foreman?

4. When Jick visits Ray after leaving the forest fire site, what is Ray doing?

5. Who goes into town to fetch the extra lunches?

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