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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 Davy do to make his father proud on the hunt?

2. About what does David dream after finishing his short story?

3. On what kind of terrain is the bull elephant found?

4. Where do David and Marita go when they are alone?

5. What is David doing when Catherine and Marita return in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Catherine say when David and Marita come home from celebrating the completion of the elephant story?

2. What does Catherine ask David to do after he writes the part about Davy on the hunt, and what is his response?

3. About what does Marita wonder in Chapter 28?

4. What does Davy think as the elephant dies?

5. What is different when David wakes up in the last chapter?

6. What do David and Marita do while alone in their cove after he finishes his first short story?

7. What does Catherine do when she comes into the house in Chapter 20?

8. What happens to David as he writes his short story about Africa?

9. What does David do at the beginning of Chapter 29?

10. What does David want to talk to his father about, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Madame is a minor character whose presence makes a big difference in the plot. How does she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, alters the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?

Essay Topic 2

Anger is an emotion that emerges in a few very sensitive places in the plot. What are some of these instances, and how are the outcome of the plot and the characters involved in those scene affected by this anger?

Essay Topic 3

Valor is a theme of this book that is very important to many of the characters involved. Where does this theme of valor present itself and how do these occurrences affect the characters involved in those scenes

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