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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. In Part 1, who drags Jick down a hillside?
2. During conversation on Thursday while Mac is away, how does Lisabeth describe Leona?
3. After the square dance, who gets into a fist fight?
4. During dinner at the McCaskill home early in Part 1, what is the subject of the family's argument?
5. At the Fourth of July Picnic, which McCaskill makes a speech?
Short Essay Questions
1. Early in Part 2, why does Jick feel hard used by Mac?
2. How, at the end of Part 2, does Jick sum up his Fourth of July experiences?
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. What philosophical advice does Lisabeth offer to Jick in Part 2, after he repeatedly questions her about events in the past?
5. Why, in Part 1, does Jick describe his father as being "between and between and between?"
6. Before the rodeo, why does Alec ask Jick to keep an eye on Leona?
7. How is a counting vee used to count sheep?
8. What two special privileges does Jick's father grant him on the morning of the Fourth of July?
9. Briefly describe Jick's first experience with drinking whiskey.
10. Why is Ray so adept at mimicking radio personalities, and who does he mimic?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Doig use nature, particularly detailed narratives about the beauty of the Two Medicine National Forest in Montana, as a major presence in the novel, almost to the point where nature could be considered a character?
Essay Topic 2
How does Doig weave references to war into the story of "English Creek?" What impact does war have on characters in the novel? What is Doig's general attitude toward war?
Essay Topic 3
Lisabeth is concerned, throughout most of the novel, that Jick is obsessed with the past and not open to the future and its possibilities. What is the basis for her concern? How has she changed in this regard, in her eighties, as revealed in Part 4? What interaction with Jick in Part 4 reveals the extent to which Lisabeth has changed?
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