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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 does Potter tell Jack he has?

2. Why does Sonny tell the others to go get Beezer?

3. What happens when Jack knocks the cap off of Tyler's head?

4. What does Jack explain about the flowers as he looks at them in Tansy's home?

5. What had Sonny refused to do when he and his high school friends came to the town called Harko?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Potter tell Jack when they are able to talk?

2. What does Doc remember about Daisy Temperly?

3. What happens when Jack first opens the door to the Black House?

4. What happens when the mob lead by Tansy arrives at the police station?

5. Describe the scene at the bar in Chapter twenty-three.

6. Describe the scene in Chapter eighteen when Tansy Freneau walks into the bar.

7. Describe the conversation that Mr. Munshun and Burny have in chapter twenty-six.

8. What does Jack do after Munshun is dead?

9. How does Tyler get his hand un-cuffed from the wall?

10. What does Munshun tell Tyler when he first grabs him in Chapter twenty-nine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What does it say about Jack that he was determined to wait until 12:00 even before they left for the Black House?

2) Was this belief in the importance of high noon any different than the belief that Jack gave Beezer, Doc, and Dale with the honey that the bees had carried? Why or why not?

3) What other moments of belief were seen in the story that were much like these two examples?

Essay Topic 2

1) Speculate on the reasons that Sonny and Kaiser Bill left when Mouse was sick.

2) Do you think that Mouse would have left if it had been Sonny or Kaiser Bill that had been injured? Why or why not?

3) Was Mouse's death necessary in the story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

1) Do you think that Dale truly gives up his position as police chief? Explain.

2) What do you think is the difference between a police man and a coppice man?

3) How would you have described Speedy's involvement in the story? Do you think he is a coppice man like Jack? Why or why not?

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