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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 new students were there at Ivan's new high school?

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

3. When did Ivan marry Carol Muller?

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

5. How did Ivan get to the place where he got a job his second summer of hiring out?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was jacketing?

2. Describe McGrath.

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

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

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

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

7. How did Mrs. Tidyman die?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, compare and contrast the different places that Charlie and Ivan lived.

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