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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 does Peter feel at his new school and boarding house?
(a) He is homesick.
(b) He is nervous.
(c) He is bored.
(d) He is content.

2. How many steers do the Burbank brothers drive into town in this first chapter of the book?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,500.

3. What do both of Phil’s parents wonder about him?
(a) Why he is so angry all the time.
(b) How he ended up so intelligent.
(c) Where they went wrong.
(d) If there is something wrong with him.

4. Chapter V begins when George finds Rose crying. How does he respond?
(a) He coughs nervously and leaves her alone.
(b) He begins to cry as well.
(c) He pats her arm to offer some comfort.
(d) He gives her a hug.

5. Why had the Old Lady and Old Gent moved to the hotel in Salt Lake City?
(a) They wanted a larger social scene.
(b) Phil made it known their presence annoyed him.
(c) They wanted to have less land to care for.
(d) They were tired of living with their grown sons.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the townspeople of Beech react to the coming of the Burbank cattle drive?

2. What does Phil think when he learns that George has been talking to Mrs. Gordon?

3. When Phil and George’s parents moved to Salt Lake City, what is Phil slightly concerned would not happen?

4. How do both George and Rose change, regarding supper?

5. Why do sissies bother Phil?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Peter feel about his new life in Herndon?

2. How does the narrator describe the town of Beech in Chapter I?

3. What does the narrator say about Phil's eyes in Chapter IV?

4. How do others feel about Phil's intelligence?

5. To what does the narrator compare the cattle drive?

6. Why does Phil dislike alcohol?

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

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

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

10. How does George's behavior change when he begins courting Rose?

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