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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. Where did McGrath want Charlie to help him with a ranch?

2. How many weeks before McGrath offered Charlie the job on another ranch had Ivan started high school?

3. When was Dupuyer first settled?

4. When were the sheep sheared when they were on the reservation range?

5. Which classmate of Ivan's filmed a baseball instructional film at Wrigley Field?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ivan imagine Charlie and Bessie doing as he and Carol go about their days together?

2. Describe Dupuyer.

3. What happened that made Ivan decide he never wanted anything to do with sheep again during the second summer of herding the sheep on the reservation range?

4. What would Ivan do when he had a layover during the train trip to and from Northwestern?

5. Why did Charlie almost shoot a man one day on the reservation range?

6. What was Ivan's first room of his own like at college?

7. What happened when Charlie took a vocabulary test his second week of high school in Valier?

8. When were the first indications that Charlie was sick?

9. What did Harold Chadwick do?

10. Describe McGrath.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the meaning of the title of the book This House of Sky.

Essay Topic 2

Argue whether it was as difficult for Bessie to say goodbye to Charlie when he died as it was difficult for her to come and live with him and Ivan. Use examples from the book to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Ivan's relationship with his grandmother. Use examples from the book.

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