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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. What job does Ivan take the summer before his senior year of college?

2. What had one of Ivan's cousins gone to college to learn?

3. From where did Gertie Chadwick's family immigrate?

4. How many days would the sheep graze on the reservation?

5. What flocks of birds did Charlie, Bessie, and Ivan see when they were on the reservation range?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the house on the Jensen ranch.

2. Why was Ivan asked if he had just come out of the military when he was a freshman in college?

3. What happened that made Ivan decide he never wanted anything to do with sheep again during the second summer of herding the sheep on the reservation range?

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

5. What was wrong with the sheep when Charlie was off fencing?

6. What did Ivan make to help with herding the sheep to the reservation range?

7. What was it like sharing the trailer house when Charlie, Bessie, and Ivan were on the reservation range?

8. What was Bessie's last day like?

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

10. What happened when Charlie took a vocabulary test his second week of high school in Valier?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the roles that Charlie, Bessie, and Ivan played changed over the years, and how Ivan became, in a sense, the parent. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the way that Ivan and his father adjusted to the death of Berneta.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the marriages of Bessie and Tom, Charlie and Berneta, Charlie and Ruth, and Ivan and Carol. Use examples from This House of Sky.

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