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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 did the boys who threw mud at Dolly in Chapter 42 call her?

2. After Black Beauty stumbled in Chapter 25, what happened to Reuben Smith?

3. What did Black Beauty have stuck in his foot in his anecdote in Chapter 28?

4. What day of the week did Jerry spend with his family?

5. What did Black Beauty think about all night at the end of Chapter 25?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Black Beauty believe all boys are evil? What evidence does he give to support his belief?

2. How did the way Jerry lived his life and treated people work toward his benefit in Chapter 45?

3. What thoughts on Liberty did Jerry share with Harry in Chapter 42?

4. How could Black Beauty’s good temperament be seen as a sort of detriment at this point in this life?

5. How is ‘the power of polite words’ demonstrated in Chapter 46?

6. What clues told Ned and Robert right away that something was off with Reuben when they found Reuben and Black Beauty?

7. Just as men have a check list to go through when determining if they want to buy a horse, what qualities in a potential master did Black Beauty look for?

8. How is Mr. Filcher a good example of how men can be both good and bad?

9. What evidence in Chapter 27 is there that Black Beauty and Ginger were aging a bit?

10. What does Chapter 31 say about responsibility involved in owning a horse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Death appears in Black Beauty’s story many times. What are three examples of death from Black Beauty, and what might the author’s purpose have been for including those deaths?

Essay Topic 2

There are multiple examples of foreshadowing within Black Beauty. Select at least three examples of foreshadowing to describe when they occur and what they foreshadow. Did you guess what was being foreshadowed as you were reading, or did you only recognize the foreshadowing after the event being foreshadowed had occurred?

Essay Topic 3

Black Beauty can be seen as a coming-of-age story. What elements of the story make it a coming-of-age story? How does it compare to the coming-of-age story of a human?

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