View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Norman fear about an encounter with Jim?
(a) That Jim would challenge Norman to a fight.
(b) That Norman would not win in a fistfight with Jim.
(c) That Jim could outtalk Norman any day.
(d) That Norman will run away in fear.

2. Why does Norman agree to gyppo instead of work for wages?
(a) He has never tried it before.
(b) He thinks he can make more money that way.
(c) He has an entrepreneurial streak.
(d) He enjoys working outside.

3. How does Norman feel about Jim at first sight?
(a) He dislikes him.
(b) He thinks Jim is very kind.
(c) He is drawn to his humor.
(d) He wants to be his friend.

4. How does Norman meet Jim Grierson?
(a) They are pen pals.
(b) They are college roommates.
(c) They grew up together.
(d) They spent a summer logging in the woods on the Blackfoot River.

5. What is the subject of Jim's latest brags?
(a) A one-month European vacation
(b) Jim's conquest of a large woman
(c) A new boat he has bought
(d) A deer he had hunted and killed

6. How does Norman view the answer to #93?
(a) They laugh all the time.
(b) They are a bit standoffish.
(c) They seem very nice.
(d) They are very quiet.

7. What does Jim eventually consider Norman to be?
(a) An enemy
(b) A business partner
(c) A shrewd poker player
(d) A friend

8. How does Norman end each day?
(a) Sick with exhaustion
(b) Ready for a couple beers
(c) Wishing it were Friday
(d) Preparing for the next day

9. Eventually how does Norman come to feel about Jim?
(a) He can take him or leave him.
(b) He hates him.
(c) He is his best friend.
(d) He considers him like a brother.

10. In what subject does Norman learn lessons during his experience with Jim?
(a) Accounting
(b) Botany
(c) Geology
(d) Human nature

11. Why does Jim gravitate toward Norman?
(a) He has respect for college men.
(b) He knows Norman's family.
(c) Norman beat him at arm wrestling.
(d) He senses someone who can keep up with him.

12. Why does this affair especially anger Norman?
(a) Norman had wanted to date the woman.
(b) Jim flaunts his affair to the men in camp.
(c) The woman is a friend of Norman's family.
(d) The woman is half Jim's age.

13. What does Norman take away from his experience with Jim?
(a) How to avoid competition in personal relationships
(b) How to cook Shrimp Scampi
(c) How to be a good pimp
(d) How to split a log

14. To whom does Jim introduce Norman?
(a) His old boss and his wife
(b) Two women who work for Jim
(c) His mother and father
(d) His ex-wife and kids

15. What happens at the end of the season?
(a) Norman runs into Jim in town.
(b) Norman and Jim go fishing together.
(c) Norman gets married.
(d) Norman takes a well-deserved vacation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Norman not suggest to Jim?

2. What is gyppoing?

3. What does Jim not ask Norman to do?

4. In what area of Montana do Jim and Norman work?

5. What does Jim invite Norman to do?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 587 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample