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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. In Dale's story, whose skull is Lord Byron trying to make into a drinking cup?
2. What is Jack indignant about when he is in the kitchen?
3. What is the kitchen like in Jack's house?
4. What do his co-workers accept about Dale Hawthorne since his son has died?
5. What finally ruins Jack's fantasy stories when he is driving the tractor in the field?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Hawthorne family farm that Jack works on a year and a half later. What has changed? What remains the same?
2. How does the family react to Dale Hawthorne's frequent disappearances? How does Jack react to his father's disappearances?
3. What does Jack think about as he prepares the cows for milking after realizing why Phoebe wanted him to say grace? How does he feel as these thoughts enter his mind?
4. Describe the scene in which Yegudkin opens the Alexander he has ordered for a student.
5. Where does Jack find peace and solace? With whom does he talk?
6. The narrator explains that Dale Hawthorne "trades off his sorrow for the sorrows of others." What does he mean by this?
7. What chores are Jack responsible for when he works in the barn? What feelings do the chores arouse in him?
8. Jack has a nightly routine upon entering the house. What is that routine? What seems different to him on this evening?
9. Jack begins to play the French horn in earnest. Why does he do this? Where does he practice?
10. When Jack and Phoebe are having lunch and Jack does not want to say grace, he notices that Phoebe's eyes grow large with alarm. The narrator says, "and, though he did not know why, his heart gave a jump." Why does Jack's heart jump when he sees how frighted Phoebe is?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Jack's feelings for his father are complex. Discuss the array of emotions Jack has for his father at different times in the story, and support your discussion with examples.
Essay Topic 2
How is Jack's experience with death and loss similar to that of Yegudkin? How is it different?
Essay Topic 3
As Yegudkin plays the horn, Jack is carried away by the man's skill and art. Describe the scene, and discuss the images used to describe Yegudkin's playing.
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