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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Monty Roberts grow up?
(a) San Francisco, California.
(b) Phoenix, Arizona.
(c) Salinas, California.
(d) Las Vegas, Nevada.

2. Monty Roberts was born in the middle of what American era?
(a) The Roaring Twenties.
(b) The Great Depression.
(c) The Nicaraguan Crisis.
(d) The Cold War.

3. Where was most of the wild horse population during Monty's childhood?
(a) Montana.
(b) California.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Nevada.

4. Monty won various competitions in Chapter 3, East of Eden, including what?
(a) Dog training.
(b) Snake charming.
(c) Dog racing.
(d) Bull-riding.

5. What did Monty's parents claim had injured him when they put him in the hospital in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?
(a) An ox.
(b) The barn.
(c) A flock of sheep.
(d) The horses.

6. When did Monty realize was the best time for observing the wild horses' relaxed social interaction in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses?
(a) Night.
(b) March and April.
(c) Mating season.
(d) Around the equinox.

7. When observing the horses in the wild at age fourteen, Monty saw how a colt who was behaving badly was isolated by what?
(a) A sire.
(b) A horse trainer.
(c) Another colt.
(d) A mare.

8. What was the second horse bought for Hastings Harcourt by Monty in Chapter 4, The Sand-Castle Syndrome?
(a) Bahroona.
(b) Bermuda.
(c) Bernice.
(d) Belladonna.

9. Who helped Monty with rent money in Chapter 3, East of Eden?
(a) His girlfriend.
(b) A kind stranger.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

10. In what year was Monty Roberts born?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1919.

11. When Monty illustrated his method for a horse trainer he knew in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses, the trainer said that it was a what?
(a) Dream come true.
(b) Abomination.
(c) Fluke.
(d) Miracle.

12. Once Monty was free to some extent from his father's rule, he decided that instead of doing rodeos, he would join the wrestling and what team?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Football.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Hockey.

13. Monty's father beat him with what when he was a child?
(a) A closed fist.
(b) A chain.
(c) A switch.
(d) An extension cord.

14. Where was the house in the middle of Salinas that Monty and his family moved to in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?
(a) 347 Church Street.
(b) 1984 Mission Lane.
(c) 664 Moses Boulevard.
(d) 4202 Moral Way.

15. In what year did Monty get married?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1953.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Monty never see any of from his film work?

2. When a horse was injured in the race, people wanted it to be shipped off for what purpose in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses?

3. What horse which Monty bought for Hastings Harcourt ended up being ranked the best 3 year old in California?

4. What does Monty refer to as "the most wonderful and the most predictable creatures on earth"?

5. Monty Roberts began riding horses professionally from what age?

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