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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During haying season, who employs Jick?
(a) Mac.
(b) Pete.
(c) Bud.
(d) Stanley.

3. Who goes into town to fetch the extra lunches?
(a) Velma.
(b) Stanley.
(c) Lisabeth.
(d) Jick.

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

5. What is riding with hobbled stirrups?
(a) Riding with stirrups that are loose or broken.
(b) Riding with stirrups that are too low.
(c) Riding with stirrups that are too high.
(d) Tying the stirrups together with a rope across the horse's belly.

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

7. Who does Marcella marry, after her first marriage fails?
(a) Alec.
(b) Ray.
(c) Jick.
(d) A lawyer from Missoula.

8. What is Wisdom's job on the hay crew?
(a) Supervisor.
(b) Stacker team driver.
(c) Running the scatter rake.
(d) Stackman.

9. What firefighting strategy does Stanley offer to Mac, following his observations about the opposite slope?
(a) Two firelines should be established.
(b) The fireline should be moved to the top of the opposing slope.
(c) The fireline should be established in the valley.
(d) Using a fireline is the wrong strategy.

10. 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 game of cards.
(c) Picking numbers, 1 through 100.
(d) A jig competition.

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

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

13. What is a scatter rake?
(a) A metal device for removing weeds.
(b) A wheelbarrow with a rake attached, for spreading seed.
(c) A hand rake used to remove foreign plant matter from hay fields.
(d) A ten-foot axle with two iron wheels, edged with curved teeth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to official instructions for feeding firefighters, how thick is Jick expected to slice meat?

3. How does Mac sardonically describe the new firefighting strategy to Wisdom?

4. What is Wisdom's real name?

5. Between lunch and dinner during their first full day at the camp, what does Stanley invite Jick to do?

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