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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 ultimately becomes of Ray, according to Jick, years later?
(a) He owns his father's lumber yard.
(b) He runs an insurance agency.
(c) He lives in China.
(d) He dies in a car crash.

2. Who is the mower on Jick's hay crew?
(a) Cyrus.
(b) Alec.
(c) Bud.
(d) Pete.

3. At the end of Part 3, who makes a grave announcement?
(a) Stanley.
(b) Ray's father.
(c) Mac.
(d) Tollie.

4. Who goes into town to fetch the extra lunches?
(a) Velma.
(b) Jick.
(c) Lisabeth.
(d) Stanley.

5. Who dies while fishing?
(a) Stanley.
(b) Alec.
(c) Pete.
(d) Mac.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the McCaskill family learn about Pearl Harbor?

2. When Mac was a teenager, what was his relationship with Stanley?

3. Who had reported that the local ranger had been drinking when Phantom Woman burned?

4. Before Jick leaves Alec and the ranch, what secret does Alec ask him to keep?

5. Who does Marcella marry, after her first marriage fails?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the decorating project Jick undertakes, to keep himself occupied in the heat of August.

2. How does Jick describe the avalanche of fire that fills the gulch, and why is the event significant?

3. What is the first breakfast Stanley and Jick prepare for the firefighters?

4. How does Stanley convince Mac to give him a private audience, when Mac is trying to strategize with Paul and the fire foremen?

5. What is the cause of the past rift between Stanley and Mac, as revealed near the end of Part 3?

6. How, during haying season, does Jick find himself at the Double W Ranch with Alec?

7. Why is Jick fond of operating the scatter rake?

8. How do the six fires, ignited during a storm on August 25, 1939, progress?

9. While Jick helps Pete with his machine repairs at the beginning of Part 3, how does Pete respond when Jick asks him about Stanley?

10. Why is Cyrus better known by the nickname, "Wisdom?"

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