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

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

3. What was John's nickname?
(a) Highpockets.
(b) High legs.
(c) Tally.
(d) Limber legs.

4. Where did Henry Tucker live?
(a) In the barn.
(b) Outside the ranch.
(c) In town.
(d) At the heart of the ranch.

5. What was Gretel's first job in Wyoming?
(a) Branding cattle.
(b) Herding sheep.
(c) Herding cattle.
(d) Helping to shear and brand sheep.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Gretel what place in Wyoming did most Wyomingites grudgingly acknowledge?

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

3. How old was Dorothy?

4. What impact did the downfall of a big ranch have on it's employees?

5. How many square miles is Wyoming?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the lambing sheds like?

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

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

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

5. How did the owners of the largest ranch in Wyoming feel as their ranch was being auctioned off?

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

7. What is winter in Wyoming like?

8. Why was John's nickname high pockets?

9. Who was Dorothy?

10. What tools were given to cowboys and sheepherders?

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