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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. How many butts of hay would Charlie have to get stacked at Camas?

2. What work did Charlie and Bessie do in Dupuyer during Ivan's last year of high school?

3. How many sheep was McGrath planning on putting on the new ranch he planned to lease?

4. What had one of Ivan's cousins gone to college to learn?

5. How many miles was it to the nearest town from the Jensen ranch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the house on the Jensen ranch.

2. What was Ivan's pattern of life while he was in White Sulphur Springs and Bessie and Charlie were on the Camas ranch?

3. What was jacketing?

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

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

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

7. Describe Dupuyer.

8. What did Ivan do the year after graduating from college?

9. What did Ivan decide to do about college?

10. What did a sheepwagon look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the roles that Charlie, Bessie, and Ivan played changed over the years, and how Ivan became, in a sense, the parent. Use examples from the book.

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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