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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the lowest temperature Wyoming gets to in the winter?

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

4. What type of personality did Dorothy have?

5. How many ranch hands had the largest ranch in Wyoming had?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the landscape of Wyoming like?

2. Who was Dorothy?

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

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

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

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

7. What tools were given to cowboys and sheepherders?

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

9. Who was Henry Tucker?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cowboys were very independent and strong people. Discuss what Gretel learned about cowboys, using examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Gretel described the man that became her husband as a cultural straddle. Explain what you think she meant by that term.

Essay Topic 3

When Gretel got married she toasted to the end of loneliness, but didn't really believe that it would be so. Discuss why Gretel felt that way.

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