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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 does Captain White think is still not over?

2. In how many states is the priest wanted?

3. Where is the Kid born?

4. Where does the Kid spend the night?

5. What is Sproule attacked by in the night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the sergeant want from the Kid?

2. How did the Judge help the gang massacre the Indians?

3. What does the company find at the hut?

4. What is the business of the Glanton gang?

5. Describe the fight with the bear.

6. How does Toadvine persuade Glanton to let him, the Kid and the Kentuckian soldier to join?

7. What does the bald man say is wrong with the preacher?

8. How does the kid get robbed?

9. Why does the Judge walk around the ruins of the village?

10. How does the Kid get the whiskey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the racism portrayed in Blood Meridian. Do you think it stops just at the African American or are people like the Kid wronged against? Is the Glanton gang's battles against the Indians and the Mexicans racially motivated? Why do you think the Glanton gang accepts Black Johnson even going so far as telling the proprietor he had the right to be served? Was racism mostly restricted to the middle and upper classes in the 19th century? If so, why was this the case?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss McCarthy's life. In what way do you think his life and personality is reflected in the book? Note how his feelings about religion and philosophy enter his work.

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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