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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 Mr. Wiggin use more of Herriot's time than Herriot feels is necessary?

2. Who is Marmaduke "Duke" Skelton?

3. What was Colonel Bosworth's reason for seeing Herriot?

4. Why was the conversation with Mr. Fryer frustrating for Herriot?

5. How does Herriot usually catch Mrs. Bond's cats?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Mrs. Bond was displeased with Tristan.

2. After Herriot and Granville attend the lecture, why is it challenging to return home?

3. Why does Herriot become upset with Kitson when he goes to deliver some lambs for him?

4. When does Herriot see Carmondy again? What happens?

5. Explain what upset Herriot when he goes to trim Mrs. Tompkin's budgie's beak. What does he do about it?

6. How does Herriot feel after eating at the Horners? What lasting effect does it have on him?

7. What call do Herriot and Helen go on when they leave the Daffodil Ball? What happens there?

8. Why does Roland Partridge decide to postpone as long as possible the surgery that Herriot recommends fro his little dog Percy? What possible affect did this delay have?

9. Describe the Dimmock family.

10. In what way is Herriot's work personality different from Ewan Ross's?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several times during the book, Herriot talks about what it was like practicing in days before penicillin. Write an essay about the discover of penicillin and how it impacted the world.

Part 1. When and how was penicillin discovered?

Part 2. How did things change for the medical field due to penicillin?

Part 3. What are some treatments that are no longer used due to penicillin?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about sheep dogs and sheep dog trials.

Part 1. Explain the roles of livestock guardian dogs and herding dogs.

Part 2. What breeds have traditionally been used for each? Why are they appropriate.

Part 3. Explain the training involved in herding dogs and the competitions such as sheep dog trials that measure it.

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