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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. Which of the characters scalps the dead?

2. Where is the man brutally murdered?

3. Which of the boys becomes disrespectful?

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

5. Who meets the gang at the city gate?

Short Essay Questions

1. The gang tries to convince the doctor of what?

2. Describe how the man dies.

3. How does the gang celebrate its victory?

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

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

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

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

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

9. On what do the Judge and the gang leaders agree?

10. In Chapter 21 how do the Kid and Tobin recover?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Examine the novel's violence.

1) Is the violence accurate to how it really was?

2) How did such an environment affect characters like the Kid? Did they become immune to the violence? How would someone like the Kid cope when he is back in normal society having seen so much death?

3) Does McCarthy representation of violence have a point to make about contemporary society?

Essay Topic 3

The main themes in the novel are violence, good and evil, and religion. Take one of these themes and discuss how mcCarthy expresses them in the book? Why do you think these themes were important concerns in 1850s America?

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