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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 does Mr. Hillman reveal about the child in the small coffin?

2. What does Robert spend his dime on?

3. What kills one of the hens during the night?

4. What does the Widow Bascom ask Robert to help her with?

5. What is the behavior that has angered Aunt Carrie?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Robert's maturity affecting his view on religion

2. What does Robert hear his mother and aunt discussing in Chapter 9?

3. What is the impact of Robert's incorrect smoking of the apple orchard?

4. Why does the family not have enough food to eat for the winter?

5. What does Mama send with Robert to the fair?

6. How does Robert show his forgiveness toward his father for slaughtering Pinky?

7. What is the unspoken understanding regarding Pinky in the Peck household?

8. How

9. What is the significance of Pinky's being barren?

10. What is the weaseling procedure in which Robert participates/

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Papa's evolving relationship with Robert. How does he gently guide him into becoming a man and being able to take over the farm?

Essay Topic 2

Papa at first does not want Robert to accept the gift of the piglet because it is a "frill." Explain what a frill is and why Papa would be so opposed to Robert's acquisition of one.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the day that Papa dies. How does Robert assimilate his father's role literally and figuratively? Explain.

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