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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. From what country did the McCaskill family emigrate in the 1880s?
2. As Mac prepares to leave for a week, what does he almost forget?
3. At the square dance, who does Jick ask to dance?
4. What is the name of the horse Jick rides in Part 1?
5. On Club Day, who arrives to pick up Lisabeth?
Short Essay Questions
1. How, at the end of Part 2, does Jick sum up his Fourth of July experiences?
2. After the rodeo, why is Jick unable to finish his conversation with Stanley?
3. After reading a story in the local paper, why is Jick so interested in the details of a wagon trip his mother took with her family twenty-five years prior?
4. Briefly describe the main character of "English Creek," as portrayed early in the novel.
5. Early in Part 2, why does Jick feel hard used by Mac?
6. How, as Jick recollects, did he and Ray become friends?
7. Why, in Part 1, does Jick describe his father as being "between and between and between?"
8. How does Mac's square dance calling compare with that of Jerome, the main caller?
9. How does the appearance of Velma affect Jick, when she arrives at the rodeo?
10. In Part 1, why is Jick so upset when his father accidentally calls him "Alec?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss several examples in which Jick feels blindsided, especially by Mac, only to realize later the joy of completion and accepting responsibility. How do these experience help Jick in his journey toward manhood?
Essay Topic 2
Doig divides "English Creek" into four Parts, each introduced by a blurb from the "Gros Ventre Weekly Gleaner." What is the significance of the divisions in the narrative? What function does each Part serve? How do the newspaper blurbs relate to the Parts?
Essay Topic 3
When Mac is summoned to Missoula for fire danger classes, he rails against regulations and "desk jockeys." Why does Mac value experience and instinct over rules and training? Why, given his attitude, does he want Alec to go to college rather than face life head on and gain experience?
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