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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses did Monty's family have to leave their home?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1929.

2. What was the second horse bought for Hastings Harcourt by Monty in Chapter 4, The Sand-Castle Syndrome?
(a) Bahroona.
(b) Bernice.
(c) Belladonna.
(d) Bermuda.

3. When horses have their head high and forward ears, it shows they are interested in something where?
(a) Near.
(b) Far away.
(c) In the sky.
(d) On the ground.

4. Monty's wife was how many years behind him in school?
(a) Five.
(b) Seven.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

5. How many mustangs did Monty return from Nevada with in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses?
(a) 150.
(b) 38.
(c) 750.
(d) 10.

6. What did Monty's father hit his horse with to "break it" in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?
(a) Chains.
(b) Paper.
(c) Rope.
(d) A whip.

7. Monty Roberts was born in the middle of what American era?
(a) The Roaring Twenties.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) The Nicaraguan Crisis.
(d) The Great Depression.

8. What job did Monty's father get him in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?
(a) Bull rider.
(b) Rodeo Clown.
(c) Announcer.
(d) Stunt Double.

9. What did Monty never see any of from his film work?
(a) His earnings.
(b) The directors.
(c) His co-stars.
(d) The movies.

10. What had actually injured Monty to the point of being hospitalized when he was a child in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?
(a) Horses.
(b) A car.
(c) His father.
(d) A train.

11. How old was Monty when he met Hastings Harcourt?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Thirty-three.
(c) Thirty-one.
(d) Twenty-nine.

12. What did the audience yell when one of the horses was injured in Chapter 1, The Call of the Wild Horses?
(a) Crow's bait.
(b) Jumpin' catfish.
(c) Hog Jowels.
(d) Holy makerel.

13. What did Monty's parents claim had injured him when they put him in the hospital in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?
(a) A flock of sheep.
(b) The barn.
(c) The horses.
(d) An ox.

14. Where did Hastings Harcourt tell Monty he had property and wanted to open a full-scale thoroughbred facility?
(a) Santa Barbara.
(b) Santa Ana.
(c) Santa Monica.
(d) Santa Ynez.

15. What did Monty's father find Monty's compassionate methods of training horses to be?
(a) An outrage.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Inspiring.
(d) Life-changing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hastings Harcourt was the son of what publishing giant?

2. At what age did Monty first volunteer to gather wild mustangs for the Salinas Rodeo?

3. How old was Monty when his father brutally beat a black man to death in Chapter 2, Growing Up with Horses?

4. Monty's family's friend had what position on the set of "East of Eden"?

5. In what year did Monty get married?

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