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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. How does Jick compare his job to that of the firefighters?
(a) As the fire has hunger for the forest, the firefighters have an epidemic of appetite.
(b) While Jick uses fire to cook food, the firefighters use food as fuel to fight fire.
(c) They are all physically exhausted.
(d) Their days stretch on as if weeks.

2. How does Mac sardonically describe the new firefighting strategy to Wisdom?
(a) Firefighting by mail order.
(b) Firefighting by the numbers.
(c) Fighting fire with fire.
(d) Firefighting by braille.

3. How does Paul show his trust in Mac and the new firefighting strategy?
(a) He offers to lie in his report.
(b) He offers to "forget" to report.
(c) He offers to delay reporting their status until the last moment in the morning.
(d) He offers to delay reporting their status until the last moment in the evening.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alec's response, when Jick asks him to help their father fight the forest fire?

2. Where does Jick seek shelter when an electrical storm blows up, on his way into town?

3. On the morning when the new firefighting strategy is employed, by what time must Jick and Stanley evacuate?

4. By what time each day is Mac required to report to the Forest Service, indicating whether or not the fire is under control?

5. Who had told the main character's parents, long ago, that he looked like "the jick of the family?"

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of fire season in 1939, how does the Forest Service plan to cut costs?

2. What was the early relationship between Stanley and Mac, as revealed near the end of Part 3?

3. Why is Cyrus better known by the nickname, "Wisdom?"

4. How do the six fires, ignited during a storm on August 25, 1939, progress?

5. Describe the decorating project Jick undertakes, to keep himself occupied in the heat of August.

6. Describe the final moments of Mac's life.

7. When Jick sees Alec at the Double W Ranch, what are Alec's professional and personal circumstances?

8. In the final scene of "English Creek," when Jick tells Stanley he's sorry about the way things went after the Phantom Woman fire, how does Stanley respond?

9. What is the first breakfast Stanley and Jick prepare for the firefighters?

10. Briefly describe Pete's strategy in getting rid of the incompetent Good Help without firing him.

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