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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. Where does Herriot go when he leaves the Crumps?

2. Who is Mrs. Donovan?

3. When Herriot goes walking through the vegetables to clear his mind, what does he hear?

4. What was Herriot suspected of for his placement of the family pets winners?

5. What would Cliff do after he fought with his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of chapter thirteen, Herriot gives us a glimpse what the Darby household is like twenty years later. How are the Darbys doing twenty years later?

2. Describe what happens when Herriot treats the cow at the Darrowby show. What is wrong with the cow? What happens to Herriot while he treats it?

3. In chapter one, Herriot greatly appreciates a benefit of his wife and married life. What is it?

4. Describe Granville Bennett.

5. What is the Darrowby show that Herriot goes to officiate at?

6. What does Herriot find so difficult and horrifying about treating the cows for husk at the Darby farm?

7. Describe the scholastic background of Mr. Pickersgill and how his education manifests itself at the time of the story in chapter five.

8. Explain why each of the vets battled with their conscience after seeing Clancy.

9. At the Darrowby show, what parameters does Herriot decide to use to judge the family pet competition? Why?

10. What was the experience of the stomach operation on Monty like for Herriot? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about euthanasia.

Part 1. What is euthanasia? What are the different kinds of euthanasia?

Part 2.What criteria might you use in deciding when to euthanize a pet?

Part 3. What are the primary issues in the debate surrounding the morality of euthanasia in people?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay on sulphonamides.

Part 1. How and when were they discovered? By who?

Part 2. How do they work and what do they treat?

Part 3. What effect did the use of sulphonamides have? What did they pave the way for?

Part 4. What diseases or afflictions have most been controlled by sulphonamides and antibiotics?

Essay Topic 3

Tristan plays a prank on the town by taking a local legend and recreating a character from it as a ghost. Investigate your own area's past to find interesting local legends.

Part 1. Summarize the legend that existed near his town and what Tristan did as a joke.

Part 2. Research your area and find either local history or legend to find events of a similar nature.

Part 3. What did you discover about the past of your area that you did not previously know? What kind of people lived there? Are there characters from the past that would lend themselves to a prank such as Tristans? How aware of the past are the people in your community?

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