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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 feeling did Gretel get when she went to Wyoming?
(a) Restful.
(b) Numbness.
(c) Excitement.
(d) An awakening.

2. What mountain was Gretel herding the sheep past?
(a) Rendezvous.
(b) Aspen.
(c) Black Tooth.
(d) Big Horn.

3. What type of environment did Ben prefer?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Lonely.
(c) Filled with people.
(d) Interactive.

4. What does Wyoming mean in Indian?
(a) In the prairie.
(b) At the great plains.
(c) At the great mountains.
(d) At the coyote land.

5. What did Gretel relate a big ranch too?
(a) A miniature society.
(b) A small rodeo.
(c) A big city.
(d) A farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gretel say the landscape felt like in winter?

2. What feeling did Gretel think she wanted when she went to Wyoming?

3. What state had Dorothy lived in before moving to Wyoming?

4. Which of the current owners of the largest ranch in Wyoming was a descendant of the original ranchers?

5. Who was the auctioneer auctioning off the largest ranch in Wyoming?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tools were given to cowboys and sheepherders?

2. Why did Gretel feel that to live and work in Wyoming was to lose distinction of background and foreground?

3. Who was Dorothy?

4. What is winter in Wyoming like?

5. How did John react to the open space of Wyoming?

6. Who was Henry Tucker?

7. How were the workers on a ranch treated by the ranch owner?

8. How did those working in the lambing shed try to make a ewe believe that an orphaned lamb was hers?

9. What did Gretel experience when she arrived in Wyoming?

10. What were the lambing sheds like?

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