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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 was Angus, Charlie's brother, injured the second summer that Ivan was back from college?

2. What other brother of Charlie's was injured by a horse?

3. How far was the high school from Dupuyer?

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

5. What was the name of the delicatessen-cafe-hangout that was near where Ivan stayed in college?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Ivan decide to do about college?

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

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

5. What was McGrath's philosophy about hiring hands?

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

7. What did Harold Chadwick do?

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

9. How would Ivan and Bessie try to save the sheep when they were plagued with ticks?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the meaning of the title of the book This House of Sky.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the way that Ivan and his father adjusted to the death of Berneta.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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