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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 were farm hands who worked on a ranch provided with?

2. What is most of the landscape of Wyoming made up of?

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

4. How many days did the herding trip take that Gretel was on at the beginning of the book?

5. What does Wyoming mean in Indian?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Gretel say that things happened in Wyoming?

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

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

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

6. What was a big ranch like?

7. What is the landscape of Wyoming like?

8. Who was Dorothy?

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

10. What were the lambing sheds like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Gretel's time as a sheep herder. Use 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

Farm and ranch work were very different. Compare and contrast the work done on farms and ranches.

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