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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. In what mountain range was the Jensen ranch?

2. What job does Ivan take the summer before his senior year of college?

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

4. How many days of the year did Gertie Chadwick keep her cafe open?

5. How often would Charlie, Bessie, and Ivan refill their water cans when they were on the reservation range?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was McGrath's philosophy about hiring hands?

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

3. What was Bessie's last day like?

4. How did Charlie settle Ivan and Bessie down after McGrath tore into them for letting sheep die during Charlie's absence?

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

6. What was wrong with the sheep when Charlie was off fencing?

7. Describe the place where Ivan and other financial-aid students lived.

8. What did Ivan make to help with herding the sheep to the reservation range?

9. Describe the house on the Jensen ranch.

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the book, compare and contrast McGrath's style of managing men with Charlie's style of managing men.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what Charlie meant when he said, "As the fellow says, a fool and his money are soon parted, but ye can't even get introduced around here." Use examples from Charlie's and Ivan's lives.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why to Ivan his high school years were a regiment of calm rather than the torchlit, raucous time that many high schoolers experience. Use examples from the book.

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