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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 had one of Ivan's cousins gone to college to learn?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Law.
(c) Engineering.
(d) Pharmacy.

2. How many weeks before McGrath offered Charlie the job on another ranch had Ivan started high school?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Eight weeks.
(c) Five weeks.
(d) Six weeks.

3. What was the single room called that Ivan qualified for when he was in college?
(a) The Broom closet.
(b) The Closet.
(c) The Box.
(d) Shoe.

4. Where did Ivan work at college?
(a) In the cafeteria.
(b) In the campus bookstore.
(c) In the library.
(d) In the kitchen.

5. How many butts of hay would Charlie have to get stacked at Camas?
(a) 315.
(b) 225.
(c) 100.
(d) 150.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many acres was the Jensen ranch?

2. Where did Bessie spend the Christmas after herding the sheep on the reservation range?

3. What was the diagnosis for Charlie's illness?

4. Who lived in a ranch colony beyond the second ridgeline to the south of the Jensen ranch?

5. What was the name of the delicatessen-cafe-hangout that was near where Ivan stayed in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Charlie leave Bessie and Ivan alone to herd the sheep?

2. If Charlie and Bessie parted ways, why would Ivan choose to live with his father?

3. What would Ivan do when he had a layover during the train trip to and from Northwestern?

4. Describe McGrath.

5. What was Ivan's first room of his own like at college?

6. What was McGrath's philosophy about hiring hands?

7. What did Harold Chadwick do?

8. What was jacketing?

9. Describe the place where Ivan and other financial-aid students lived.

10. Why did Charlie almost shoot a man one day on the reservation range?

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