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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. What firefighting strategy does Stanley offer to Mac, following his observations about the opposite slope?
(a) The fireline should be moved to the top of the opposing slope.
(b) Two firelines should be established.
(c) Using a fireline is the wrong strategy.
(d) The fireline should be established in the valley.

2. What is Jick's favorite card game?
(a) Crazy Eights.
(b) Pitch.
(c) Poker.
(d) Gin Rummy.

3. In August, after haying season, Jick's mother is busy with what?
(a) Teaching school.
(b) Spinning wool and weaving.
(c) Writing a chronicle of Gros Ventre history.
(d) Canning, pickling, and preserving food for the winter.

4. Who dies while fishing?
(a) Pete.
(b) Alec.
(c) Mac.
(d) Stanley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Part 3, who makes a grave announcement?

2. The morning after Mac joined the firefighters, what request does he send through his dispatcher?

3. Who takes over the Reese Ranch when Pete decides to sell?

4. Between lunch and dinner during their first full day at the camp, what does Stanley invite Jick to do?

5. After a lightning storm on August 25, how many fires are burning in Mac's English Creek district?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Shortly after the death of Mac, what big question does Lisabeth ask of Jick?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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