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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 do the crowd chant at Homer?

2. What does Homer compare the tear in the balloon to?

3. Who hands out the bottles of medicine at the traveling show?

4. What kind of traveling show does Fleabottom run?

5. What does Homer say is in the wagon that allows him to become human again?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Homer describe Professor Fleabottom?

2. Who is Mr. Willow?

3. How does Homer escape the military?

4. What false hope does Homer have in this section?

5. Why do the military surround the traveling show?

6. How does Mr. Willow help Homer in this section?

7. Summarize chapter seventeen.

8. How does Miss Nibbly get rid of Homer?

9. Why is Mr. Willow so vulnerable?

10. Why is Homer able to see through the Nibbly's scam?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Homer's opinion of slavery? Is Homer's views on slavery realistic considering how little he has seen of life?

Essay Topic 2

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 3

In what way does Homer find the truth in this section? How does his narration change when he finds the truth? Why does Homer embellish so much on the truth at the beginning of the novel?

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