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

2. Near what town did Ivan work that summer after his first year in college?

3. When was Dupuyer first settled?

4. How much time would Ivan spend traveling to be able to spend five or six days in Montana in March?

5. Near where did Ivan get a job his second summer of hiring out?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Dupuyer.

2. What was Bessie's last day like?

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

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

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

6. What does Ivan imagine Charlie and Bessie doing as he and Carol go about their days together?

7. What did Ivan do the year after graduating from college?

8. Why did Ivan pitch from the mound at Wrigley Field?

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

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 why to Ivan his high school years were a regiment of calm rather than the torchlit, raucous time that many high schoolers experience. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the events in Ivan's life that led him to choose the life he leads now. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, compare and contrast the different places that Charlie and Ivan lived.

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