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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 Pete convince Good Help to leave the hay crew, without actually firing him?
(a) Pete offers to fire Jick and let Good Help do the work of two men.
(b) Pete offers to fire Wisdom and let Good Help do the work of two men.
(c) Pete convinces him that haying season is over.
(d) Pete explains he has to cut everyone's wages.

2. What is Wisdom's real name?
(a) Dominic.
(b) Walter.
(c) Cyrus.
(d) Stanley.

3. At the end of Part 3, what grave announcement is made?
(a) Another war has begun in Europe.
(b) A loved one has passed away.
(c) Alec is missing.
(d) Another forest fire is burning in the Two.

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

5. According to Pete, who is the only man who knows the mountains of the Two as well as Mac?
(a) Alec.
(b) Pete.
(c) Jick.
(d) Stanley.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Stanley suggest Jick could measure an inch?

2. What is Wisdom's job on the hay crew?

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

4. What injury is suffered by a firefighter during Jick's first full day at the site?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Stanley suggest to Mac that their fireline should be moved to the top of the opposing slope, rather than the bottom of the slope that is currently on fire?

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

5. What is the cause of the past rift between Stanley and Mac, as revealed near the end of Part 3?

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

7. At the end of Part 3, what ominous announcement is made, and by whom?

8. How, during haying season, does Jick find himself at the Double W Ranch with Alec?

9. What, as revealed in Part 4, becomes of Jick's brother, Alec?

10. After Mac requests fifty firefighters and a cook, what positions are assigned to Stanley and Jick?

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