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

2. What county was one of the prime sheep areas of Montana?

3. The Christmas after herding the sheep on the reservation range, how long was Bessie gone?

4. How many of Bessie's children lived in White Sulphur?

5. What was the diagnosis for Charlie's illness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Charlie leave Bessie and Ivan alone to herd the sheep?

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

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

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

5. If Charlie and Bessie parted ways, why would Ivan choose to live with his father?

6. What was Bessie's last day like?

7. What determined the distance that was traveled each day as the sheep were herded to the reservation range?

8. Describe McGrath.

9. What did Harold Chadwick do?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the marriages of Bessie and Tom, Charlie and Berneta, Charlie and Ruth, and Ivan and Carol. Use examples from This House of Sky.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role that the land played in people's lives in the book. Use examples from This House of Sky.

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