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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 many days did Gretel's first job in Wyoming last?
(a) 16.
(b) 17.
(c) 14.
(d) 15.

2. What type of look did Gretel say that most of Wyoming had?
(a) Abandoned.
(b) Lean-to.
(c) Prairie.
(d) Rundown.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wyoming mean in Indian?

2. When did the lambing season end?

3. What month was it when the book began?

4. Who was Dorothy's boyfriend?

5. What was the most important thing that ranches provided the sheepherders and cowboys with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the landscape of Wyoming like?

3. What were the lambing sheds like?

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

5. Who was Henry Tucker?

6. Why was John's nickname high pockets?

7. What tools were given to cowboys and sheepherders?

8. What did it mean to "winter in town"?

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

10. Why did Ben live 20 miles outside of town?

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