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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. How often would the camptender come out to the Doig's cabin?
(a) Once a month.
(b) Every other week.
(c) About every ten days.
(d) Once a week.

2. Who did Ivan's father work with on a haywire outfit for one week?
(a) Phil.
(b) Cliff.
(c) Hatcher.
(d) Rob.

3. What town did Tom and Bessie move to after the owner of the ranch where they worked died?
(a) Castle Rock.
(b) Margrave.
(c) Ringling.
(d) White Sulphur Springs.

4. What would the camptender bring when he came out to the Doig's cabin?
(a) Orders from the ranch boss.
(b) T-bone steak and a barrel of whiskey.
(c) Groceries and mail.
(d) More sheep.

5. During what decade did settlers first come into Ivan's area of Montana?
(a) 1840s.
(b) 1850s.
(c) 1870s.
(d) 1860s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years of schooling did Bessie have?

2. How many times did Ivan's parents move camp the summer that they were married?

3. What color were the dogs that appear with the photographs of Ivan's parents?

4. Where did the Indian tribes retreat to in the early years of settlement after leaving the area where Ivan and his father lived?

5. Where in Montana in the early years was gold being flushed out of every gravel gulch?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was different about Ruth from the other ranch cooks?

2. Why did Ivan's father and Cliff decide to leave an outfit?

3. Where did Ivan and his parents go during the last winter of World War II?

4. Can Ivan see the sickness to come in the photos of his mother?

5. Why did Bessie marry Tom Ringer?

6. Why were the clockless mountain summers over for Charlie Doig when Berneta had died?

7. What two things during Ivan's early weeks in the first grade set off any interest within him?

8. Describe Ivan's father as he looked in Ivan's photo album.

9. Why was it hard for Ivan when he and his father stayed with Ivan's Uncle Angus and his family?

10. What business did Charlie and Ruth run together?

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