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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 John Grady instruct Rawlins to do before buying his new boots?

2. How old does John Grady tell Don Hector he is?

3. How old is Don Hector Rocha y Villareal?

4. Who is it that stops John and asks if they can be friends just before he leaves San Angelo?

5. What clue do John Grady and Rawlins have that Don Hector is near their camping place in the mountains?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the basis of the first conversation between Don Hector and John Grady?

2. What does Perez say a prison resembles and why?

3. What is the first question posed by Don Hector upon the return of the man who traveled to America to get his horse?

4. Why do John Grady and Rawlins say that the kid cannot ride with them?

5. What does John Grady say when Rawlins tells him that his father has passed away?

6. What bet does John Henry make while he and Rawlins are waiting to go to prison?

7. What is it that Perez says he wants from John Grady?

8. What do John Grady and Rawlins do with the deer Rawlins shoots?

9. What does Blevins say made him run away to Mexico?

10. What does the surgeon say about the scar on John Grady's face?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Jimmy Blevins come to be involved with John Grady and Rawlins? What are the attitudes of Rawlins and John Grady toward Jimmy Blevins? How do their attitudes differ? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Jimmy Blevins? Describe his background, his life and the things that put him in the position to be killed.

Essay Topic 3

What is it that makes John Grady go to Mexico in the first place? What is the effect of this situation over him as he ages?

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