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

2. What were farm hands who worked on a ranch provided with?
(a) Rifles.
(b) Horses.
(c) Air conditioned tractors.
(d) Working dogs.

3. What was the population of the biggest city in Wyoming when Gretel moved there?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 80,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. Which three sheepherders wanted their wagons moved during lambing season?
(a) Ed, Fred and John.
(b) Albert, Ed and Rudy.
(c) Rudy, Fred and John.
(d) Albert, Fred and John.

5. How did Gretel feel in the winter?
(a) Totally alone.
(b) The saddest she had ever been.
(c) Like the first or last person on earth.
(d) The happiest she had ever been.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what season did Gretel arrive in Wyoming?

3. Where did Henry Tucker live?

4. How long had the largest ranch in Wyoming been in business before it went under?

5. How many sheep was Gretel herding at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the biggest characteristic of the landscape in Wyoming?

2. What did Gretel say a person's life in Wyoming was like?

3. Who was Dorothy?

4. What were the lambing sheds like?

5. What was a big ranch like?

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

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

8. Who was Henry Tucker?

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

10. What tools were given to cowboys and sheepherders?

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