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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. When Mac leaves to fight the final English Creek fire, what does Lisabeth reveal to Jick about Leona?
(a) Leona has left Alec.
(b) Leona is trying to decide whether to marry Alec or finish high school.
(c) Leona has found another man.
(d) Leona is ill.

2. Which member of the hay crew is injured, as a result of Good Help's incompetence?
(a) His son, Clayton.
(b) Jick.
(c) Pete.
(d) Wisdom.

3. What is Wisdom's job on the hay crew?
(a) Stackman.
(b) Stacker team driver.
(c) Running the scatter rake.
(d) Supervisor.

4. What do Stanley and Jick notice about the slope opposite the fire?
(a) It is rocky, lacking anything that might burn.
(b) It is very hot.
(c) It has already burned.
(d) It is too steep to climb.

5. Between lunch and dinner during their first full day at the camp, what does Stanley invite Jick to do?
(a) Share extra food from lunch.
(b) Sing along with him.
(c) Take a walk with him.
(d) Share his whiskey.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Jick sees Leona years later, why does she say that time has cut her value?

3. How does the Forest Service plan to cut costs at the beginning of fire season n 1939?

4. Which member of the hay crew does Good Help replace?

5. At Reese Ranch during haying season, what job is usually given to whichever Hebner boy happens to be twelve to fourteen years old?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Jick and Lisabeth eat dinner alone, while Mac fights the forest fire, what news does Lisabeth share about Leona?

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

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

4. 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?

5. Who are the members of Pete's hay crew at the beginning of the 1939 season, and what are their assigned duties?

6. How does Jick describe the avalanche of fire that fills the gulch, and why is the event significant?

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

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

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

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

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