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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. Who shoots the puppies?

2. Where does the gang camp?

3. What does Tobin tell the Kid he needs to kill?

4. Which character does not agree with the Judge's ideas?

5. What do the women want to do with the side show's brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Glanton and his gang use the ferry?

2. How does the book end?

3. Describe how the man dies.

4. What happens to the gang's Indian scouts?

5. How do Toadvine and the Kid escape the Indians?

6. What does the Judge say to Tobin and the Kid?

7. How does the Kid survive the snow and the soldiers' onslaught?

8. How does the gang get to the town of Jesus Maria?

9. Describe the confrontation between the Kid and the Judge in Chapter 22.

10. Who wants to join the gang in Chapter 17?

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

The novel is set mostly in Texas.

1) What meaning does Texas bring to the novel? What would you automatically presume about a novel that was set in Texas?

2) How different do you think today's Texas is to the Texas in the novel? How do you think the novel's meaning would change if it were set in today's Texas?

3) How do you think the Texas settings of the novel contribute to the novel's violent tone?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the characters of the Kid and Judge Holden.

1) In what way are their morals different?

2) What is their relationship to each other?

3) Why is it significant that the Judge kills the Kid at the end?

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