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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Monty's wife was how many years behind him in school?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) One.

2. What did Monty feel once in Nevada in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses?
(a) He wanted to go home.
(b) He wished he weren't in Nevada.
(c) He wished his father were with him.
(d) He needed more time with the horses.

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

4. Monty Roberts began riding horses professionally from what age?
(a) Four or five.
(b) Five or six.
(c) Three or four.
(d) Eight or nine.

5. What did the others who went to Nevada with Monty in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses, want to do?
(a) Return to Salinas quickly.
(b) Move on to Oregon.
(c) Stay in the wilderness indefinitely.
(d) Stay in Nevada.

6. What sign of obedience did Monty observe when a colt was turned away in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses?
(a) Pacing with head to the ground.
(b) Eye contact.
(c) Faint vocalizations.
(d) Bowing down.

7. 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) Abomination.
(b) Fluke.
(c) Dream come true.
(d) Miracle.

8. What did Monty never see any of from his film work?
(a) His earnings.
(b) The movies.
(c) The directors.
(d) His co-stars.

9. What was the name of the medium brown horse with a white dot between his eyes that Monty met in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?
(a) Brownie.
(b) Eye patch.
(c) Dot.
(d) Bullseye.

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

11. What were the horse competition areas of Salinas used for, causing Monty's family to have to move in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?
(a) Army barracks.
(b) Factories.
(c) Japanese-American internment camps.
(d) Nuclear test site.

12. Who, along with the director, asked Monty to watch the dailies and give his thoughts on "East of Eden"?
(a) James Dean.
(b) Burl Ives.
(c) Don Page.
(d) Raymond Massey.

13. What horse did Monty Roberts claim was his all-time favorite in Chapter 3, East of Eden?
(a) Carl Jones.
(b) Rodney Dangerfield.
(c) Johnny Tivio.
(d) Diamond Joe.

14. How old was Monty Roberts when he won his first riding trophy?
(a) Nine.
(b) Six.
(c) Eleven
(d) Four.

15. Hastings Harcourt was the son of what publishing giant?
(a) Whitmore Publishing.
(b) Tate Publishing.
(c) Johnson, Stevens, and Smith.
(d) Harcourt Brace and World.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of grades did Monty receive in school as a child?

2. When observing the horses in the wild at age fourteen, Monty saw how a colt who was behaving badly was isolated by what?

3. What kind tutor with a 1940s hairstyle was Monty's babysitter and also his teacher?

4. In what year did Monty turn fourteen?

5. What percent of the thoroughbred facility did Monty receive with the option of buying in more later in Chapter 4, The Sand-Castle Syndrome?

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