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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used by Howard in Chapter 3 means anxious or concerned?
(a) Regal.
(b) Casual.
(c) Solicitous.
(d) Uncommitted.

2. What is the name of the wheat planter in Roman times that is described in Chapter 3?
(a) Andrus.
(b) Lucian.
(c) Brutus.
(d) Julius.

3. Howard says of his father in Chapter 3, "The world fell away from my father the way he fell away from us. We became" what?
(a) His suffering.
(b) His dream.
(c) His regret.
(d) His ghost.

4. The Zulu people that are mentioned in the novel are an ethnic group from where?
(a) South America.
(b) Southern Africa.
(c) Northern Africa.
(d) Eastern Europe.

5. What were Ed Titcomb and his friend doing when they came upon Howard in the woods in Chapter 3?
(a) Gathering firewood.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Collecting arrowheads.
(d) Going to their mother's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe George's wife's cooking in Chapter 4?

2. What clock on the wall is "worth ten times more than [George had] ever told anyone," according to the narrator in Chapter 4?

3. What book is Howard reading on the night he dies?

4. What religion is Megan's mother said to be in Chapter 4?

5. Of his parents, Howard says in Chapter 3, "That he and my mother should wrestle him into his clothes in the dark seemed" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the theme of competition apply to the characters and relationship of George and Howard Crosby in Tinkers?

2. What is implied in the conversation between George's wife and Charlie in Chapter 4, Part 1?

3. How has Howard managed to track down George's address in Chapter 4? What does he do when he locates George?

4. How did Howard's loss of his own father later influence his actions with his wife and children?

5. Who comes to visit George in the opening of Chapter 4? What does this character do during her visit?

6. Where does Howard go to search for his father after Reverend Crosby's disappearance in Chapter 3?

7. Where does Megan go during the Christmas holidays in 1953? What does Howard do after she leaves?

8. What hallucinations does Howard experience in Tagg Pond in Chapter 3, Part 2?

9. What is symbolic about the descriptions of Reverend Crosby fading from Howard's vision in Chapter 3, Part 1?

10. What is the last thing that George remembers before he dies in Chapter 4?

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