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

2. What was the most important thing that ranches provided the sheepherders and cowboys with?
(a) Saddle.
(b) Horses.
(c) Working dog.
(d) Binoculars.

3. When did the lambing season end?
(a) May.
(b) July.
(c) June.
(d) April.

4. How did Gretel's dog teach her to sleep?
(a) In a bed.
(b) Curled against sagebrush.
(c) Curled in a ball.
(d) Stretched out.

5. What is most of the landscape of Wyoming made up of?
(a) Arid valleys.
(b) Wetlands.
(c) Mountains.
(d) Rocky terrain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the people of Wyoming flushed out the rawness that Gretel felt within herself?

2. What was the population of the biggest city in Wyoming when Gretel moved there?

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

4. What month was it when the book began?

5. What illness prevented Ben from working?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was a big ranch like?

3. What is winter in Wyoming like?

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

5. Who was Dorothy?

6. What is the landscape of Wyoming like?

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

8. What tools were given to cowboys and sheepherders?

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

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

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