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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 language did the Judge use to call down to the Indians?

2. With which of the following is the Kid not provided?

3. From what state is the soldier that befriends the Kid and Toadvine?

4. Whose head is the gang after?

5. Who asks the Kid and Toadvine where the Kentuckian has gone?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Kid and Sproule find in the carreta?

2. What does the sergeant want from the Kid?

3. Why does the Kid join the army?

4. How does the Judge sort out the problem between the soldiers and Glanton when paying for the guns?

5. What problems does the company face from the very beginning?

6. Why does Tobin admire the Judge?

7. How does the Kid get the whiskey?

8. How does the Kid find his donkey again?

9. What is the business of the Glanton gang?

10. How does the kid get robbed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What comparisons can be drawn between Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession and Blood Meridian? Which is the more accurate account and why? Why does McCarty uses Chamberlain's novel as a reference point?

Essay Topic 2

Blood Meridian is written in the third person.

1) Why do you think McCarthy chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if it were written in the first person?

2)Choose a character from the novel and discuss how the story would be different if he were the narrator?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the representation of Indians in the novel.

1) What Indian tribes are represented in the book. What are the histories of these tribes and in what way were they involved with the Mexican War.

2) Compare a historical account of an Indian tribe in the book with McCarthy's representations. Does he have a certain aim in mind for presenting the Indians as he or does he just want to represent it how it really was?

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