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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time of day was it when Gretel arrived in Wyoming?
(a) Night.
(b) Afternoon.
(c) Morning.
(d) Midday.

2. What did Gretel say animals held her to?
(a) The future.
(b) Reality.
(c) What was present.
(d) To be thankful.

3. What direction did the doors of Gretel's wagon face?
(a) Southeast.
(b) Northeast.
(c) Northwest.
(d) Southwest.

4. What were the only things that Gretel could see when she arrived in Wyoming?
(a) White peaks and black sky.
(b) White peaks and cornfields.
(c) White peaks and valleys.
(d) Black sky and valleys.

5. What did Seamus Henry say about landscape?
(a) That it was clean.
(b) That it was beautiful
(c) That is was ugly.
(d) That it was sacramental.

6. Who quit at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Steve.
(c) John.
(d) Cliff.

7. What did the lambs that Gretel was herding do up the valley?
(a) Fall into the quick sand.
(b) Get into the oil.
(c) Almost drown in the water.
(d) Get into the mud.

8. What was a mother cow's job on a ranch?
(a) To provide milk.
(b) To provide food.
(c) To have babies.
(d) To provide fur.

9. How long is the irrigating season in Wyoming?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 5 months.

10. What was a rancher's main job?
(a) Cow herder.
(b) Brander.
(c) Sheep herder.
(d) Food producer.

11. Why did Gretel believe that cowboys were "strong and silent"?
(a) Because they didn't like people.
(b) Because they had no one to talk to.
(c) Because that was their personality.
(d) Because they were lonely.

12. How many miles did the ranch land extend in either direction?
(a) 40-50.
(b) 50-60.
(c) 30-40.
(d) 100--120.

13. What was the name of a neighboring rancher who was in his seventies?
(a) Steve Hinckley.
(b) Mike Hinckley.
(c) John Hinckley.
(d) Frank Hinckley.

14. What did Gretel say animals didn't care about?
(a) Their job.
(b) Who a person was.
(c) Who a person had been.
(d) Their outcome.

15. What color was the motel that Gretel stayed in when she first arrived in Wyoming?
(a) White.
(b) Tan.
(c) Blue.
(d) Pink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the names of Gretel's crew members?

2. What did Gretel relate the passage of seasons to?

3. What did Gretel say winter was?

4. According to Gretel what did courage mean on a ranch?

5. Where did Gretel move after a month in Wyoming?

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