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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. While waiting for school to start, what project does Jick undertake?
(a) Wallpapering his porch bedroom.
(b) Learning how to tan hide.
(c) Learning how to rope.
(d) Canning with his mother.

2. What is Jick's job on the hay crew?
(a) Running the scatter rake.
(b) Stacker team driver.
(c) Stackman.
(d) Lunch distribution.

3. Which member of the hay crew does Good Help replace?
(a) Pete.
(b) His son, Clayton.
(c) Jick.
(d) Wisdom.

4. Who had reported that the local ranger had been drinking when Phantom Woman burned?
(a) Mac.
(b) Pete.
(c) Stanley.
(d) Good Help.

5. Who takes over the Reese Ranch when Pete decides to sell?
(a) Ray.
(b) Jick.
(c) Stanley.
(d) The Double W.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is a scatter rake?

4. How does Mac sardonically describe the new firefighting strategy to Wisdom?

5. Who was the ranger at Indian Head in 1919, when Phantom Woman burned?

Short Essay Questions

1. While Jick helps Pete with his machine repairs at the beginning of Part 3, how does Pete respond when Jick asks him about Stanley?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why is Jick fond of operating the scatter rake?

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

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

10. How does Stanley convince Mac to give him a private audience, when Mac is trying to strategize with Paul and the fire foremen?

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