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

2. What percent of the thoroughbred facility did Monty receive with the option of buying in more later in Chapter 4, The Sand-Castle Syndrome?
(a) Ten percent.
(b) Five percent.
(c) Twenty percent.
(d) Eight percent.

3. How much did Monty's father ask for rent from Monty in Chapter 3, East of Eden?
(a) A reasonable amount.
(b) A large amount.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A small amount.

4. What did Monty watch the mustangs do when entering the race in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses?
(a) Buck wildly.
(b) Stop to graze.
(c) Lie down.
(d) Run backwards.

5. Who planned to buy a ranch in Salinas just before his untimely death in Chapter 3, East of Eden?
(a) Don Page.
(b) Burl Ives.
(c) Raymond Massey.
(d) James Dean.

Short Answer Questions

1. Monty's method of training horses was largely based on cultivating what with the animal?

2. Where did Hastings Harcourt tell Monty he had property and wanted to open a full-scale thoroughbred facility?

3. 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?

4. What did Monty's father offer to rent to Monty in Chapter 3, East of Eden?

5. Who directed the film "East of Eden"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Monty write about the abuse he suffered from his father in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses? When did the abuse end?

3. What budget did the millionaire in Chapter 4, The Sand-Castle Syndrome give Monty to guy two horses? What did he buy?

4. How did Monty branch into other sports after achieving freedom from his father?

5. What did Monty discover about Harcourt in Chapter 4, The Sand-Castle Syndrome? Who informed him of the condition?

6. What opportunity did Harcourt offer Monty after he bought him horses in Chapter 4, The Sand-Castle Syndrome?

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

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

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

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

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