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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 county was one of the prime sheep areas of Montana?

2. What old machine did Ivan like to play in and around at the Camas Ranch?

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

4. Where did Bessie spend the Christmas after herding the sheep on the reservation range?

5. When did Ivan qualify for a room of his own in college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Harold Chadwick do?

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

4. How did Mrs. Tidyman die?

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

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

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

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

9. Describe Dupuyer.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Using examples from the book, discuss why some people talked about Charlie Doig as if he were two separate men.

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