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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a jick?
(a) A horse-drawn wheel and axle, used for haying.
(b) A device used for shearing sheep.
(c) A dance, popular in the 1920s.
(d) A jack that shares the color of the jack of trumps in some card games.

2. During his third day of laboring on Mac's assignment, from whom does Jick hide?
(a) Alec.
(b) Stanley.
(c) Leona.
(d) Isodor.

3. Through what are sheep herded for the purpose of counting?
(a) A needle vee.
(b) A counting vee.
(c) A sheep gate.
(d) The eye of a needle.

4. Jick compares his work at home, as assigned by Mac, to what historic event?
(a) Discovering America.
(b) Painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
(c) The initial ripping plow of human settlement.
(d) The birth of Jesus.

5. What section of the National Forest is still scarred from a fire in 1910, as described in Part 1?
(a) Phantom Woman Mountain.
(b) The North Fork.
(c) Roman Reef.
(d) Flume Gorge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which horse at the rodeo is dangerously rambunctious in the chute?

2. During Lisabeth's wagon trip as a child, where did she and her family sleep?

3. At the Fourth of July Picnic, which McCaskill makes a speech?

4. Why had Ray been hesitant, years ago, the first time Jick asked him to go fishing?

5. What do most men notice about Velma's wardrobe when she arrives at the rodeo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Ed say his main memory of fighting in France is shaving?

2. Before the rodeo, why does Alec ask Jick to keep an eye on Leona?

3. When Earl and Alec come to blows outside the square dancing venue, how does the fight end?

4. What announcement by Jick's brother, Alec, early in Part 1, shatters the McCaskill family?

5. Early in Part 2, why does Jick feel hard used by Mac?

6. Briefly describe Jick's first experience with drinking whiskey.

7. While Mac calls a square dance on the Fourth of July, who does Jick ask to dance and how does she respond?

8. How, as Jick recollects, did he and Ray become friends?

9. What fate befell many of the ranch families who used to live along English Creek prior to the start of the novel?

10. During the Fourth of July Picnic, how does Toussaint make Jick uncomfortable?

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