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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say both Jack and Ennis were "inured" (254) to when describing their backgrounds at the start of "Brokeback Mountain"?
(a) A life of chaos.
(b) A life of leisure.
(c) The city life.
(d) The stoic life.

2. What position is Jack hired for on Brokeback Mountain the year he and Ennis meet?
(a) Herder.
(b) Foreman.
(c) Cook.
(d) Camp tender.

3. What caused Ennis to stop going to school and to return to ranch work after his parent's death?
(a) He had a baby.
(b) He found it boring.
(c) He failed all his classes.
(d) His truck broke down.

4. What is one thing Ennis likes about living in their apartment?
(a) That is was big.
(b) That it is right near the laundry.
(c) That it is close to a bar.
(d) That it can be left at anytime.

5. What is the only thing Ennis enjoys reading, as explained after he begins working at Brokeback Mountain?
(a) Boots and Buckles Magazine.
(b) Burpee's seed catalog.
(c) Hamley's saddle catalog.
(d) The L.L. Bean catalog.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack say he would like to do with Ennis when he is passing through Riverton?

2. What is Joe Aguirre's position on Brokeback Mountain?

3. What is the only thing Ennis ever said to Jack while on Brokeback Mountain regarding their affair?

4. What was Jack's highest level of education?

5. What does Ennis tell Jack he did first thing in the morning the first night he slept with the sheep?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where were Ennis and Jack born and what types of families did they come from?

2. What do Jack and Ennis know, despite not discussing it, after the first night they are intimate on Brokeback Mountain?

3. What are the only things Jack and Ennis say to each other regarding their relationship while on Brokeback Mountain?

4. Why does Joe Aguirre cut Jack and Ennis's time at Brokeback Mountain short?

5. What does Ennis do to save himself a trip when he offers to sleep with the sheep at Brokeback Mountain?

6. What does Ennis tell Jack about his first morning after setting up camp near the sheep?

7. What positions are Jack and Ennis hired for at Brokeback Mountain?

8. How long after their time at Brokeback Mountain does Ennis receive a letter from Jack and what does it say?

9. What does Jack notice when Ennis takes his clothes off to wash himself at the main camp at Brokeback Mountain?

10. What are Jack's days like when he has to set up camp with the sheep every night?

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