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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Wisdom with, before being brought to the Reese Ranch for the 1939 haying season?
(a) Giggling Gertie.
(b) Fancy Nancy.
(c) Happy Helen.
(d) Bouncing Betty.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is Jick's favorite card game?
(a) Poker.
(b) Crazy Eights.
(c) Pitch.
(d) Gin Rummy.

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

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

10. Which member of the hay crew is injured, as a result of Good Help's incompetence?
(a) Pete.
(b) His son, Clayton.
(c) Jick.
(d) Wisdom.

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

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

13. How many fish had the deceased person caught, before he died?
(a) Seven.
(b) Ten.
(c) None.
(d) Two.

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

15. 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 plans to leave town.
(c) Alec has a new girlfriend.
(d) Alec and Leona are eloping.

Short Answer Questions

1. While waiting for school to start, what project does Jick undertake?

2. What is Jick's final news of Alec?

3. What is Jick's job on the hay crew?

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

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

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