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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 kind of traps do Jack and Shel use for the animals?
2. Why do the teenagers and others on the farm give up their tradition of keeping watch?
3. Who taught poetry on the farm?
4. What color is the barn on the farm?
5. What are the soldiers most excited about finding in the silo?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Red when he takes Evie at gunpoint out in the woods?
2. What natural phenomenon does Evie and the rest of the crew at the farm see in Chapter 5 that is highly unusual for that time of year and the location?
3. Why does Evie grow frantic when the soldiers start shooting sheep?
4. Who does Evie credit with saving them from the great house and leading them to the farm, and why?
5. What does Jack tell Darla he has figured out about the Bible in Chapter 7?
6. How does the farm feel to Evie when they first get there in Chapter 5?
7. How does Sukey seem to react to having to care for her infant half-sister?
8. On what conditions does the owner of the farm say the teenagers and Burl are allowed to stay there?
9. What alarming news does David get from the great house about the parents in Chapter 5?
10. What saves the crew at the farm from the soldiers?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Millet chooses to leave the question of where the parents go in the very end of the novel - and why they leave - very ambiguous? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 2
Red's broken leg seems to have been miraculously healed by the owner of the farm, and the owner also seems to have other omniscient, if almost supernatural, abilities. What do you think Millet is trying to communicate to the reader through the character of the owner? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
What does Alycia's deal with her father - that he will not tell her mother about Alycia's dalliances with an older man if she will not tell her mother about the father's infidelity - tell the reader about the moral nature of these characters? Which other parents and children seem to make choices that are morally questionable? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
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