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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 days of the year did Gertie Chadwick keep her cafe open?

2. In the fall after herding sheep on the reservation range, how many students were in Ivan's class at Valier?

3. How many days would the sheep graze on the reservation?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was jacketing?

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

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

6. How did Mrs. Tidyman die?

7. What did a sheepwagon look like?

8. What did Harold Chadwick do?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast McGrath's hired hands Mickey and Rudy. Use examples from the book.

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