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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 is the name of the group of men?

2. What do the Kid and Sproule see dead on the track?

3. How does the Kid's mother die?

4. Where does the Kid go during a rain storm?

5. From what did the Judge once save the gang?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Kid get the whiskey?

2. Why does Tobin admire the Judge?

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

4. What bad luck does the Kid have at the end of the chapter?

5. How does the Kid find his donkey again?

6. What horrors do Sproule and the Kid see on their walk?

7. Describe the fight between the Indians and the gang.

8. Describe the gang's journey toward Texas.

9. What do the prisoners see when they are let out of their cells?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the impact of good and evil within our culture. Have representations of good and evil had a negative impact on society? Does the division of good and evil make things seem simpler than what they are? Does McCarthy subvert any ideas of good and evil in Blood Meridian?

Essay Topic 2

Examine how much the Kid's upbringing was responsible for the person he became? What did he learn from his parents that made him into the person he became? How much did his father's blaming him for his mother's death affect him? Did it make him become a cold person? Would things have been any different if had met less violent people on his travels?

Essay Topic 3

Blood Meridian is a popular book which has greatly influenced modern literature. Choose a book written after Blood Meridian that you think was influenced by the novel and discuss their similarities in terms of:

a) plot

b) character

c) themes

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