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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. In what state do both Phil and George attend college?
(a) Utah.
(b) Idaho.
(c) Nevada.
(d) California.

2. Once the Gordons purchase the old hotel in Beech, how is it now known?
(a) The Doctor's Office.
(b) The Grist Mill.
(c) The Inn.
(d) The Red Mill.

3. What year does the important cattle drive at the beginning of the story take place?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1925.

4. What is a reason given for why Johnny drinks?
(a) To ease his chronic pain.
(b) To ignore his problems.
(c) To sleep better.
(d) To feel the equal of the wealthy ranchers.

5. What confuses Phil regarding George and Rose?
(a) Why George would choose Rose over the upper class women from out east.
(b) Rose is out of George's league, as she is both beautiful and talented.
(c) How George ever had to chance to speak to Rose in the first place.
(d) Where George got the guts to court Rose.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alma die?

2. When guests arrive early and more than a little drunk to the Red Mill, how does George save the day?

3. Why had the Old Lady and Old Gent moved to the hotel in Salt Lake City?

4. How do both George and Rose change, regarding supper?

5. What do both George and Rose know will greet them back home at the ranch?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does the narrator compare the cattle drive?

2. How does Phil get Rose's goat regarding music?

3. How are Phil and George different from those around them?

4. What is significant about the cattle drive in the first section (Chapters I-III)?

5. How might one describe the brothers, Phil and George?

6. How does Phil's behavior in college affect George?

7. What bothers George about Phil?

8. How do others feel about Phil's intelligence?

9. How does George save Rose's day?

10. How does Peter feel about his new life in Herndon?

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