Tinkers Test | Final Test - Hard

Paul Harding
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 137 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Tinkers Test | Final Test - Hard

Paul Harding
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 137 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 the name of the middle-aged teller that George gives his payment to after repairing the clock for Mr. Billings in Chapter 4?

2. Who helps Ed Titcomb carry Howard out of the woods in a canvas tent in Chapter 3?

3. Who are George's daughters that sit with him and his wife at dinner as Howard rings the bell in 1953?

4. What word used by Howard in Chapter 3 means anxious or concerned?

5. Where did the local Indian work for many summers cutting wood, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. When is the last time George awakens before he dies? What does he relate after awakening?

2. What is epilepsy? How was this disorder treated in the 1920s/1930s?

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

4. How is the disappearance of Reverend Crosby described in Chapter 3, Part 1? How does Howard's mother address the issue?

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

6. Who does Howard Crosby marry in Philadelphia? How is this character described?

7. What is the principle motif used throughout Tinkers? What does this motif represent?

8. How would you compare the "disappearances" of Reverend Crosby and Howard Crosby in the novel?

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

10. What regret does Howard display regarding his father in the beginning of Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the character of George Washington Crosby in Tinkers. What is significant about George’s name? How old is George as he dies? Where did George grow up? What degree did George earn, and what career did he have? How does George evolve as a character in the course of the story?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the fictional book The Reasonable Horologist by the Rev. Kenner Davenport. When was this book published? What is the book’s implied origins in George’s life? What does the book symbolize? How does the language of these excerpts differ from the main narrative of Tinkers?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the unseen character of Tom Budden and the story about Budden’s house in Chapter 2. Why does the author include this story in Tinkers? What does the door to Tom Budden’s house represent symbolically in the novel?

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