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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. The author writes that the Eisenhower years and the fifties went together like what?
(a) Peanut butter and jelly.
(b) Potatoes and cereal.
(c) Graveyards and werewolves.
(d) Hi and Lois.

2. Who is the forewoman of the ranch?
(a) The Countess.
(b) Dorothea.
(c) Bonanza Jellybean.
(d) Dolores.

3. Who is the Countess going to visit in the Hamptons in Chapter 20?
(a) J.F.K.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Johnny Carson.
(d) Truman.

4. What had Julian gotten rid of in sacrifice to his marriage?
(a) A Great Dane.
(b) A chimpanzee.
(c) A poodle.
(d) A hamster.

5. Where did the Countess first spot Sissy Hankshaw?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) The Empire State Building.
(c) Times Square.
(d) Central Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. What grade did Sissy get in home economics in school?

2. In Chapter 45, Robbins writes that the cow milk molecule is how many times larger than the molecule of mother's milk?

3. Who does Bonanza Jellybean say will run the goat's milk to Fargo in Chapter 45?

4. Where was the Countess born?

5. What fashion did the Countess believe Sissy to have inspired in the late 1960s?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Sissy and Bonanza Jellybean regard each other upon their meeting in Part Three of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues?

2. What is the relationship between Delores and Sissy and the other cowgirls in Part Three of the novel?

3. From where are gunshots heard on the ranch in Part Three? What has taken place?

4. What does the district attorney pressure the courts on regarding Sissy in Chapters 11-16?

5. How does Julian react to Sissy upon their meeting? What does this foreshadow about his character?

6. What problems is the Countess having with the cowgirls in Part Two that he asks Sissy for assistance with?

7. How does the Countess react to the cowgirls' accusations in Part Three? What conflict takes place?

8. What does Sissy think of her first experiences hitchhiking? Why?

9. What is Sissy's principle "rule of the road"? How do others react to her rules?

10. What does Bonanza Jellybean invite Sissy to crash with the cowgirls in Part Three? What takes place?

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