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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, pages 278-308.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the evening after dinner with Pete, what does Jick read about in the local paper?
(a) A story from 25 years before, about Jick's mother and her family taking a wagon trip.
(b) New strategies for fighting forest fires.
(c) A chronicle of Stanley's past.
(d) Gossip about his mother and other local ladies.

2. Who is the dispatcher at the ranger station?
(a) Pete.
(b) Chet.
(c) Stanley.
(d) Mac.

3. During the ladies' choice dance on the Fourth of July, who does Jick's mother choose?
(a) Jeff.
(b) Jick.
(c) Mac.
(d) Fritz.

4. When Mac leaves to fight the final English Creek fire, what does Lisabeth reveal to Jick about Leona?
(a) Leona has found another man.
(b) Leona is trying to decide whether to marry Alec or finish high school.
(c) Leona is ill.
(d) Leona has left Alec.

5. When the dance caller needs a break, who does he recruit as his replacement?
(a) Tollie.
(b) Jeff.
(c) Mac.
(d) Jerome.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his third day of laboring on Mac's assignment, from whom does Jick hide?

2. Who is the fiddle player at the square dance?

3. After the square dance, who gets into a fist fight?

4. While waiting for the square dance, what criticism does Ray make of Jick?

5. What dance does the substitute caller choose?

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