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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 much money does Tobias accept from the Indians for the cows?

2. What is the Everglades area known as to the Indians?

3. What letters are on top of the LaFlorida Hotel?

4. How many months is it before the MacIveys settle near the Kissimmee River?

5. What city does Solomon MacIvey live in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Solomon ask Toby in the beginning of the book, and what is Toby's response?

2. 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?

3. How do the MacIvey family and the Seminole Indians meet?

4. How do Zech, Bonzo, and Frog lose the cows they have herded and what is Tobias' response?

5. What is the Cow Cavalry?

6. How does Tobias learn about Punta Rassa?

7. What happens during the second time Tobias is recruited to work for 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. How does Solomon feel about the way the city has changed as a result of the real estate projects?

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

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

Smith writes A Land Remembered with descriptions and a subtle change in the perspective of the characters.

1) Describe three examples of the author's use of figurative or descriptive language, why he chooses to use it during those events, and how it adds to the effect of the story.

2) Explain how the point of view shifts from Tobias to Zech to Sol during the book, when the shifts occur, and why they are necessary for the impact of the story.

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