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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 are the airmen put to work doing in a Shropshire town?

2. Where are the two childhood camping chums now while James is in the RAF in Shropshire?

3. Who is Emmeline?

4. What is this latest pharmaceutical product supposed to cure?

5. What condition did James have all his life that gives him a secret fear in the RAF?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is stooking?

2. What happens to the little stray dog that James and Siegfried observe begging in the marketplace?

3. What does James remember from his childhood about how he spent every weekend from Easter to October?

4. What happens on the evening when Siegfried tells Tristan to stay at Skeldale house all evening?

5. Describe Mr. Barge and his occupation.

6. What does Siegfried chastise James about regarding an old-age pensioner and why does it turn our to be a paradox?

7. What is James' relationship with the Ministry of Agriculture?

8. Who is Granville Bennett and why does James dread coming together with him?

9. What is the incident involving Mr. Moverley's expensive Ayreshire cow?

10. Who is Roddy Travers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Who is Shep and how does he plague James? What does James do to get his revenge?

2) Describe James's reaction upon seeing his newborn son. What does he do and say that are funny to Helen and Nurse Brown?

3) Tell the story of old Albert Close and his dog Mick. Describe them both. What happens to Mick? What part does James play? What part do the men who frequent the Fox and Hounds play?

Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Tell the story of the little stray dog Siegfried and James see begging in the market place. What happens to the dog? What do Siegfried, James and the policeman do?

2) What does James hate to do and isn't good at doing which involves the Ministry of Agriculture. Explain what almost happens because of one of James's clerical errors.

3) Describe what happens on James' first solo flight.

Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) Recount briefly the story James tells about Mr. Dakin and his cow, Blossom and why you liked it.

2) Describe Lord Hulton, one of the animal owners James visits. What is one of his characteristics? What is wrong with Lord Hulton's pig and is James successful in saving it?

3) Who is Charlie and what relationship does he have with Lord Hulton? What does Hulton rely on Charlie to always do for him?

Write on two of the three topics.

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