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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 work did Charlie and Bessie do in Dupuyer during Ivan's last year of high school?

2. Who was Ivan's advisor in the school of journalism?

3. What did Ivan start writing fillers for his senior year of college?

4. When would lambing season begin?

5. Where were Charlie and Bessie working when Ivan came home from his first year of college?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the house on the Jensen ranch.

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

3. What did Harold Chadwick do?

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

5. When were the first indications that Charlie was sick?

6. What was it like sharing the trailer house when Charlie, Bessie, and Ivan were on the reservation range?

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

8. Why did Ivan pitch from the mound at Wrigley Field?

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. How did Mrs. Tidyman die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what Ivan means when he says that "Memory is a set of sagas we live by, much the way of the Norse wildmen in their bear shirts."

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from This House of Sky, discuss Ivan's relationship with his father.

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