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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 Alec's special talent?
(a) Working with numbers.
(b) Shearing sheep.
(c) Preaching.
(d) Singing.

2. What sort of pilot is Ray?
(a) A firefighting pilot for the forest service.
(b) The sort who piles it here, piles it there, in a lumberyard.
(c) A flight instructor.
(d) A fighter pilot.

3. At the end of Part 2, how does Jick describe his Fourth of July?
(a) A set of hours worth the price of the rest of the life.
(b) An unsettled day.
(c) The end of summer and youth.
(d) A toupee of grass on a cranium of rock.

4. During the escalating fight after the dance, whose punch does Ray intercept?
(a) Jick's.
(b) Alec's.
(c) Mac's.
(d) Arlee's.

5. At the beginning of Part 2, where is Mac required to go?
(a) Missoula, to meet his brother.
(b) Butte, to renew his ranger certification.
(c) Butte, for a course on deforestation.
(d) Missoula, for a course on fire danger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Early in "English Creek," what task do Jick and his father set out to do?

3. During conversation on Thursday while Mac is away, how does Lisabeth describe Leona?

4. Who is injured during the rodeo?

5. What is the name of Stanley's pack horse?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the rodeo, when Jick says the summer has left him feeling unsettled, how does Ray respond?

2. Why is Ray so adept at mimicking radio personalities, and who does he mimic?

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

4. Why is Flame Gulch the McCaskills' favorite spot in the Two Medicine National Forest?

5. How does the appearance of Velma affect Jick, when she arrives at the rodeo?

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

7. When Pete joins Lisabeth and Jick for dinner in Part 2, how does Lisabeth respond to Pete's advice regarding Alec? What unusual writing technique does the author display in this response?

8. After reading a story in the local paper, why is Jick so interested in the details of a wagon trip his mother took with her family twenty-five years prior?

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

10. Why are eighteen of the sheep in the care of Canada Dan dead, and what work is Jick required to do as a result?

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