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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to official instructions for feeding firefighters, how thick is Jick expected to slice meat?
(a) Four slices to the inch.
(b) Two slices to the inch.
(c) As thin as possible.
(d) Six slices to the inch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. The night of Jick's first day at camp, in how many places does Mack say the fire has jumped their fireline?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

12. Who was the ranger at Indian Head in 1919, when Phantom Woman burned?
(a) Mac.
(b) Pete.
(c) Good Help.
(d) Stanley.

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

14. Where does Jick seek shelter when an electrical storm blows up, on his way into town?
(a) Under a large outcropping of rock.
(b) An abandoned cabin.
(c) The Reese Ranch.
(d) The Double W Ranch.

15. Who takes over the Reese Ranch when Pete decides to sell?
(a) Ray.
(b) Stanley.
(c) The Double W.
(d) Jick.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pete convince Good Help to leave the hay crew, without actually firing him?

2. How does the McCaskill family learn about Pearl Harbor?

3. Because the crop looks so favorable in the summer of 1939, how does the "Gleaner" describe the local ranchers?

4. At the end of Part 3, who makes a grave announcement?

5. At Flume Gulch, when Jick catches Stanley drinking from a whiskey bottle, what does Jick learn?

(see the answer keys)

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