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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. Who was the runaway boy?

2. What is Elinore's last name?

3. What did Zebbie buy for the girl in #88 when he returned to Arkansas?

4. In what part of America did Elinore homestead?

5. With whom did Cora Belle's mother live for a short time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Mrs. O'Shaughnessy and how did Elinore meet her?

2. Who has the sheriff been searching for and what happened to that person?

3. How did Elinore start the process of filing her claim for her land?

4. Who was Elinore's new employer and how does she describe her new living situation?

5. What arrangements were made so that Zebulon could return to his old home for a visit?

6. What did Elinore do after Mr. Stewart did not allow her to go on a foraging expedition?

7. Explain the sad story of Zebulon and his lost love, Pauline Gorley.

8. What piece of information did Elinore neglect to tell Mrs. Coney about a major change in Elinore's life?

9. Who was Mrs. Louderer and how did Elinore meet her?

10. What was the tragedy of Cora Belle's mother and father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe holidays on the Wyoming prairie. What was the favorite holiday of the homesteaders? How did they celebrate it? How were these days different from other social events? What traditions did the prairie women try to hold on to from their lives back East?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the role of women in frontier life in early twentieth century Wyoming. How were gender roles blurred during this period of time in Wyoming? What lessons did women learn about themselves as they carved lives for their families out of the sod and hills of the prairie?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the influx of immigrants to the Wyoming frontier. For what reasons did they leave their homes? What special challenges did they experience in homesteading in Wyoming that Americans did not experience? How readily accepted were the immigrants by the established settlers in Wyoming?

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