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Chapter 1

1. What is the setting for this story?
2. Describe the stranger who has just ridden into town.
3. What is the stranger doing that causes a chill to run through Bob despite the warm sun?
4. Who is telling the story?
5. What happens when the Joe and Marian Starrett ask Shane about his background?
6. How does Joe Starrett feel about the future of ranching?

1. Why did Marian Starrett think that Shane might be from Tennesse?
2. How old was Shane when he left home?
3. Why do the Starretts tell Shane that he should stay on for awhile?
4. What does the expression "millstone round my neck" mean?
5. What is Ledyard attempting to sell to Joe Starrett?
6. How does Shane intervene in the negotiations?
7. What does the stump symbolize?

Chapter 3

1. How did the two men react when Marian asked them about her hat?
2. Why is Marian standing on the box peering out the little window?
3. Shane and Joe do not talk to one another while "battling" the stump? Why?
4. Why do they decide to remove the stump with manpower rather than "horsepower"?
5. What does Shane mean when he says, "Yes. That's the best piece of stump I ever tasted"?

Chapter 4

1. Why were Bob's mother and father more alive with Shane living on the farm?
2. What had happened to the previous hired man who had worked for Joe Starrett?
3. Bob felt that Shane would never be a farmer. Explain.
4. According to Bob, why is it so important for Shane to sit in Joe's chair at the table?
5. Why was it peculiar that Shane never carried a gun?
6. Describe Shane's gun?
7. Why does Joe Starrett caution Bob not to get liking Shane too much?

Chapter 5

1. Was Shane a first name or a last name?
2. Why does Bob stop playing with the gun when he notices that Shane is watching him?
3. How can the reader tell that Shane is very experienced with a gun?
4. What does Shane suggest to Bob is a good way of shooting?

Chapter 6

1. Who was Mr. Fletcher?
2. Why did he say that the homesteaders would have to go?
3. Where did the nearest marshal live? Why might this be a problem?
4. Describe the town.
5. Give a very brief description of the following characters: Lew Johnson, Henry Shipstead, James Lewis, Ed Howells and Ernie Wright.
6. What did Joe Starrett think would be Luke Fletcher's first move?
7. How does Chris, Fletcher's man, try to antagonize Shane?

Chapter 7

1. Why was Ernie Wright upset?
2. What happened in the fight between Chris and Shane?
3. What do you think will happen as a result of their altercation?
4. Why was Marian worried about Shane?

Chapter 8

1. According to Bob, how had Shane changed?
2. Why does Marian want to talk to Shane alone?
3. What promise does Shane make to Marian at the end of the chapter?

Chapter 9

1. Why did Joe and Shane always work together?
2. Bob asks Shane to leave the saloon because trouble is brewing. What does Shane tell Bob?
3. Why does Joe Starrett intervene in the fight?
4. Why does Joe Starrett ask his wife to leave Grafton's?
5. What is the end result of the fight?

Chapter 10

1. Why might it have "hurt" Shane to see the Starretts in the barroom?
2. Describe how Joe Starrett carries Shane?
3. What does Mr. Grafton mean when he says, "I'm marking this to Fletcher's account"?
4. What does Joe Starrett mean by the question, "Do you think I don't know Marian"?

Chapter 11

1. Find Cheyenne in an atlas.
2. Who is the stranger that has just arrived in town?
3. Why is Shane not surprised when Ernie Wright is shot?
4. Why does Shane think that Joe Starrett will be the next man that Fletcher goes after?
5. What do Joe and Marian Starrett decide to do by the end of the chapter?

Chapter 12

1. How many people were at Wright's funeral?
2. Why were some of them there according to Shane?
3. What does Shane predict for Joe Starrett's future?
4. Who rides up to the farm?
5. What does Wilson say that angers Joe Starrett?

Chapter 13

1. Why is everything so quiet at the beginning of this chapter?
2. What comment does Shane make about farming?
3. How does Shane prevent Joe from going to town?
4. Why does Bob think that Shane is not boasting when he says, "Tell him no man need be ashamed of being beat by Shane"?

Chapter 14

1. Why did Bob feel a stab of pain when he saw the saddle-roll?
2. Why does Bob decide to follow Shane?
3. What does Bob mean when he says, "I saw our valley as though for the first time. . ."?
4. What was the dark spot on Shane's shirt that was growing ever larger?
5. Do you agree with Shane that, "A man is what he is and there's no breaking the mold"?
6. Who takes Bob home?

Chapter 15

1. Why does Mr. Weir tell Joe that everyone knows that he didn't remain on the farm that night of his own free will?
2. What is Joe Starrett shocked to hear?
3. Why does Chris offer to work for the Starretts?
4. How does Marian convince Joe that they should stay on the farm?

Chapter 16

1. According to Bob, why did he never tell tales or speculate about Shane?
2. Who did the townspeople think Shane might have been?
3. What did Bob think about their speculation?

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Brian Thornton, Capo Creations, Box 1411, Haileybury, Ontario, CANADA POJ 1KO

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