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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 is the man's last name?
(a) Hanks.
(b) Conover.
(c) Murphy.
(d) Williams.

2. Where does the family go to start over?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Texas.
(c) Georgia.
(d) New Mexico.

3. What store does Lily hope to go to in order to shop?
(a) JCPenney.
(b) Marshall Field's.
(c) Sears.
(d) Montgomery Ward.

4. Smith teaches Lily how to ____.
(a) Drive.
(b) Navigate by the stars.
(c) Fix cars.
(d) Rope cattle.

5. Lily feels she is no longer needed at the ranch so she moves to which metropolitan city?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Santa Fe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the family that moves onto the ranch?

2. Where is the school located?

3. How many miles away is the town?

4. Lily applies to a teachers' college in which state?

5. What is Rooster's last name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lily react when her father suggests that the children were saved by divine intervention? How does Lily explain saving Helen and Buster?

2. How is Salt Draw explained?

3. What is the name of the new ranch? How is it different from High Lonesome?

4. What is the test Lily must pass to retrieve her paycheck? What is the outcome?

5. Lily decides to leave the ranch again. What is her plan?

6. Explain Lily's college experience. What are some of her trials and victories?

7. What is unusual about the school?

8. How is Lily's career shaped over the next several years?

9. Where does Lily go after leaving the ranch? What prompts her choice?

10. What are the educational goals of the children? How are those goals addressed?

(see the answer keys)

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