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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. How do both George and Rose change, regarding supper?
(a) They begin to ask for fancier meals.
(b) They begin to arrive later than usual.
(c) They both dress up for the meal.
(d) They sit on opposite ends of the table from one another.

2. What do both George and Rose know will greet them back home at the ranch?
(a) The barking ranch dogs and Phil’s sniffling and coughing.
(b) A warm fire and hot supper.
(c) The squawking chickens and barking dogs.
(d) High winds and cattle.

3. What luxury does the Burbank cattle ranch have?
(a) Several automobiles.
(b) An alarm system.
(c) Television.
(d) Electric lights.

4. What reason does Phil give when George is not asked to pledge a fraternity?
(a) Phil believes it is his fault.
(b) Phil believes it is George’s fault.
(c) The fraternities are all full.
(d) The fraternity probably forgot to stop by.

5. Why does Johnny’s advisor suggest he look for a small town in need of a doctor?
(a) Johnny is considered a kind man but not much of a doctor.
(b) Johnny prefers general medicine, so a small town would be a perfect fit.
(c) Chicago has grown very dangerous as of late, so Johnny would be safer in a small town.
(d) There are too many students graduating from med school and not enough positions to fill.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rose convince herself that she misunderstood Phil the night he and his team dined at the Red Mill?

2. How does Phil find the entertainment of the men who put explosive devices in the anuses of young magpies?

3. Why is this cattle drive in the first chaper of the book important to Phil?

4. What is the nickname for the train on which the men plan to load the steers?

5. What is the relationship between Phil and George?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does George save Rose's day?

2. What is known about the Burbank ranch in the first section (Chapters I-III)?

3. How does Rose react when Peter asks if she is happy?

4. Why does Phil feel let down by their twenty-fifth cattle drive?

5. How does Phil's behavior in college affect George?

6. How might one describe the brothers, Phil and George?

7. What are a couple things that may have turned Johnny to drink?

8. How does Rose feel about how she is treated at the grocery store in Herndon after marrying George?

9. How does George act in a way that surprises Phil, at the end of Chapter VI?

10. How does Phil get Rose's goat regarding music?

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