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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 is Jack holding when he walks out to meet Tansy and the mob?

2. What does Jack ask Sophie when he first goes over into the Territories in Chapter twenty-one?

3. What does Mr. Munshun say to Burny in chapter twenty-six when he is trying to get Burny to get up and go move Tyler?

4. What does Doc do after calling the police station and telling them that Potter is at the bar?

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 Mouse tell about the Black House?

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

3. What do Doc and Beezer explain about Mouse's condition when Jack first arrives in Chapter twenty-three?

4. What does Doc remember about Daisy Temperly?

5. What does Jack find when he returns to his world in Chapter twenty-two?

6. Describe the dream that Tyler has in Chapter twenty-six.

7. What does Jack discover when he goes to visit Tansy at her home?

8. Describe the scene in Chapter sixteen when Dale is first bringing Potter into the police station.

9. How does Jack describe Mouse's leg in Chapter twenty-three?

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) 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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

1) What did the bees represent in the story?

2) What was the significance of the bees being seen in the front of the story? When did it become apparent that the bees held some deeper meaning in the story?

3) Could some other symbol have been used rather than the bees? Why or why not?

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