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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 psychological disorder did Hastings Harcourt suffer from?
(a) Borderline Personality Disorder.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Depression.
(d) Bipolar Disorder.

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

3. What star of "East of Eden" did Monty befriend and show around the horses?
(a) Raymond Massey.
(b) Richard Davalos.
(c) James Dean.
(d) Jo Van Fleet.

4. What does Monty refer to as "the most wonderful and the most predictable creatures on earth"?
(a) Hawks.
(b) Horses.
(c) Deer.
(d) Rabbits.

5. What event was part of the Salinas Rodeo during Monty's childhood?
(a) The Mayor's Chicken Catch.
(b) The Backward Mule Ride.
(c) The Hungry Hog Race.
(d) The Wild Horse Race.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses did Monty's family have to leave their home?

2. What did Monty's parents claim had injured him when they put him in the hospital in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?

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

4. In what year was Monty Roberts born?

5. How long did Monty spend alone with the wild horses when he was fourteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the crowd yell when horses were injured at the rodeo in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses? Why?

2. Who did Monty meet at age 31 in Chapter 4, The Sand-Castle Syndrome?

3. How did Monty develop his techniques in his teens? What basic concepts were established?

4. What position did Harcourt offer Monty at the facility in Chapter 4, The Sand-Castle Syndrome? How did it develop?

5. Where was the majority of the wild horse population in Monty's childhood? When and why did he first visit there?

6. How does Monty describe meeting Brownie in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?

7. Where did Monty Roberts develop his ideas about horses and horse-training? What are the basic tenets of his methodology?

8. What setting does Monty Roberts depict in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses?

9. What idea did Monty present to the rodeo owner when he was fourteen in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses?

10. What event led to the end of abuse suffered by Monty at the hands of his father in Chapter 3, East of Eden?

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