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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. How does Tobias react to the news of the cows that have been lost?

2. What is the second job Tobias is forced to do for the Confederates?

3. How many oxen do the Confederate soldiers take?

4. How does Tobias protect the Indians?

5. What do the Indians trade Tobias for some of his bullets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens on the first trip to Punta Rassa and how does Tobias respond?

2. What events take place for Tobias and Zech at the Seminole village and how do they present a conflict for them?

3. What has happened at the trading post in St. Johns River to cause such a shortage in supplies, and what is the result of Tobias' trip there?

4. What is the valuable advice that Keith Tiger gives to Tobias at the end of Chapter 9?

5. How does Zech eat his first beef roast, and what keeps Tobias awake after the meal?

6. Where does Zech meet Glenda, and what is Emma's advice to him?

7. What does Tobias find when he returns home after his second work experience with the Confederates?

8. What does Tobias do as soon as he arrives home after speaking with Keith Tiger, and what happens when he and Zech encounter a bull?

9. Where do Tobias, Emma, and Zech migrate to Florida from, and how is their initial few years in the new state?

10. What happens to the MacIvey family's cattle business, and how does the second encounter with the bull take place?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both Tobias and Emma change as a result of the success the family enjoys from the cattle and orange businesses. Using the entire book to provide examples, analyze the way each one of them changes, as well as the similarities and differences in their response to success.

Essay Topic 2

Many of the women in the book seem to have tragic, unforeseen deaths.

1) Describe how Emma dies and what the reaction of Tobias is along with the rest of the family. What did Emma represent for Tobias, and why is he having difficulty living without her?

2) Explain how Glenda dies and the author's possible reasons for ending the character this way. How did Glenda help Zech fit into the present and future? What does her death signal for him?

3) Describe how Bonnie dies and how her death continues the tragic theme that the author establishes throughout the book.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Sol and Toby's relationship from the way it began to their last meeting, which occurs at the beginning of the book. Use the entire story as a reference in describing their disagreement, the major differences in how they each view the world, the reasons for those differences, and how they are eventually resolved. Also, include how the author uses irony in this part of the story.

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