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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. When did Rose Gordon graduate from high school?

2. Who was the first Doig to die in Montana?

3. When did Charlie and Ruth marry?

4. What town did Tom and Bessie move to after the owner of the ranch where they worked died?

5. What creek can be heard from the cabin where Ivan and his parents lived?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did a forest ranger say about Ivan's mother?

2. Why did Bessie marry Tom Ringer?

3. Why is the name "Smith River" a misnomer?

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

5. Who asked Charlie and Ivan to move in with him so Ivan could start school?

6. What happened on Ivan's sixth birthday?

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

8. How does a teacher who taught Ivan's mother describe an incident from her life?

9. What good and bad luck did Charlie Doig, his mother, and brothers have in 1919-1920?

10. Describe Thomas Ringer.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the book, compare and contrast the different places that Charlie and Ivan lived.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast McGrath's hired hands Mickey and Rudy. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss what Ivan means when he says that "Memory is a set of sagas we live by, much the way of the Norse wildmen in their bear shirts."

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