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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many acres was the Jensen ranch?
(a) 5,100 acres.
(b) 2,500 acres.
(c) 4,000 acres.
(d) 1,500 acres.

2. When did Charlie, Bessie, and Ivan set out to herd the first group of sheep to the reservation range?
(a) May 1954.
(b) April 1955.
(c) March 1956.
(d) March 1954.

3. How was Angus, Charlie's brother, injured the second summer that Ivan was back from college?
(a) His horse fell with him.
(b) He fell off a combine.
(c) He was in a fight.
(d) He got trampled by cattle.

4. Where did Bessie and Ivan go for a week and leave Charlie to herd the sheep alone at the reservation range?
(a) White Sulphur Springs.
(b) Ringling.
(c) Dupuyer.
(d) Valier.

5. In what year did Ivan finish his first year of college?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1957.

6. What other brother of Charlie's was injured by a horse?
(a) Jim.
(b) Bob.
(c) Ryan.
(d) Andrew.

7. How many of Bessie's children lived in White Sulphur?
(a) One son and one daughter.
(b) Two sons and one daughter.
(c) Three daughters.
(d) Two sons.

8. How many sheep was McGrath planning on putting on the new ranch he planned to lease?
(a) 4,500 ewes.
(b) 2,000 ewes.
(c) 6,000 ewes.
(d) 1,000 ewes.

9. What branch of the military did Ivan serve in?
(a) Army.
(b) Air Force.
(c) Marines.
(d) Navy.

10. What had one of Ivan's cousins gone to college to learn?
(a) Engineering.
(b) Law.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Pharmacy.

11. What language did Ivan study that first year in college?
(a) Latin.
(b) Russian.
(c) German.
(d) French.

12. How many men had stayed working as crew with McGrath through the years?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

13. During Ivan's second summer of hiring out, where did wheat have to be taken twice a day?
(a) Sunburst.
(b) Cut Bank.
(c) Browning.
(d) Chester.

14. How many butts of hay would Charlie have to get stacked at Camas?
(a) 225.
(b) 315.
(c) 150.
(d) 100.

15. How many miles was it to the nearest town from the Jensen ranch?
(a) 12 miles.
(b) 5 miles.
(c) 9 miles.
(d) 21 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. During Charlie's absence, how many days did Bessie and Ivan have to spend every daylight hour patrolling the sheep grazing on the reservation?

2. From where did Gertie Chadwick's family immigrate?

3. When would lambing season begin?

4. Where did Ivan work at college?

5. Where were Charlie and Bessie working when Ivan came home from his first year of college?

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