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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 Lee give Cowney in Chapter Twelve?
2. What does Lishie tell Cowney he should give thanks for in Chapter Three?
3. What does Essie's father do for a living?
4. What characters remind Cowney of Lee and Sol years later?
5. What kind of car does Cowney drive to the inn?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Essie tell Cowney at dinner at the inn the first night that he is wary about?
2. Who is the most constant and comforting person in Cowney's life, and why?
3. What does Lishie tell Cowney about his father's letters home from the war?
4. How does Lishie feel about religion and how does her religious outlook affect Cowney?
5. What does Cowney feel his choices in life would be if he stayed in Cherokee?
6. Why does Bud tell Cowney to be careful when he gets to the Grove Park Inn?
7. What does Cowney think of the first dinner he eats at the inn?
8. What physical challenge does Cowney have?
9. What does Bud do in the midst of the wildfires that appalls Cowney?
10. What does Cowney think is the strangest thing about the story he is told about his father' death?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is Cowney's experience of poverty? How does Cowney's socioeconomic situation affect his life path and choices throughout the course of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
How does Crowney's experience doing the logging work for Bud in Part I affect his feelings towards, and relationship with, Bud? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think the bone Cowney finds on the grounds of Grove Park Inn holds such fascination for him? What do you think it represents to him? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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