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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. On Thursday while Mac is away, where does Isodor plan to go?
(a) To join Mac in Butte.
(b) To check on Walter's ranch.
(c) To join Mac in Missoula.
(d) To deliver supplies to fire lookouts.

2. After the rodeo, where does Jick see Stanley?
(a) The Medicine Lodge Saloon.
(b) The Two Medicine Saloon.
(c) Sedgwick House.
(d) The Lunchery.

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

4. In Part 2, when does Alec arrive at the McCaskill house for a visit?
(a) On the final day before his father's return.
(b) Just after his father returns.
(c) On the Fourth of July.
(d) During Pete's dinner visit.

5. After the rodeo, who eases Jick away when he tries to question Stanley?
(a) Ray.
(b) Velma.
(c) Dode.
(d) Mac.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Leona's boyfriend, prior to Alec?

2. During dinner at the McCaskill home early in Part 1, what is the subject of the family's argument?

3. As "English Creek" begins, how old is the narrator?

4. What do Ray and Jick plan to eat during a break from square dancing?

5. What is the prize for winning the calf roping competition at the rodeo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, in Part 1, does Jick describe his father as being "between and between and between?"

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

3. Why is the Two country described as a toupee of grass on a cranium of rock?

4. As Jick finishes digging the new outhouse pit, why does Alec visit the McCaskill house?

5. After the rodeo, why is Jick unable to finish his conversation with Stanley?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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