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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 Lonnie decide to do after talking with Hud?
2. What is in the barnyard?
3. What does Granddad do for all the hired hands?
4. What do Jesse and Halmea discuss?
5. Where do they take Granddad?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who cooks breakfast for all the men and who is not there?
2. Who does Hud send for help and what happens as Lonnie is by the roadside?
3. What does Lonnie decide about his life in the immediate future?
4. What do the men do after breakfast?
5. Why does Lonnie swerve off the road and what does Hud do?
6. Where does Granddad send Lonnie and Jesse, and what do they discuss?
7. How does Hud act the day after Granddad's death?
8. What happens to Jesse and Lonzo, and how does Jesse react?
9. Why does Lonnie hide and what does he do the day after Granddad's death?
10. Describe the preacher's sermon about Granddad.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. Thoroughly discuss the character Granddad. What are his strengths? Weaknesses? How does he evolve over the course of the story? Is he likable at the beginning of the story? At the end of the book? Do you think he is a protagonist or antagonist? Why
2. Thoroughly discuss the character Hud. What are his strengths? Weaknesses? How does he evolve over the course of the story? (or does he?) Is he likable at the beginning of the story? At the end of the book? Is he trustworthy? Wise? Would you want him as a friend? As an enemy?
3. Thoroughly discuss the character of Lonnie. What are his strengths? Weaknesses? How does he evolve over the course of the story? (or does he?) Is he likable at the beginning of the story? At the end of the book? Is he trustworthy? Wise? Would you want him as a friend?
Essay Topic 2
There are a number of interesting questions raised by this book -- questions that McMurtry may have wanted readers to consider and think through carefully. Discuss the following:
1. What does the term author agenda mean?
2. Name one idea/concept you think may have been a part of the author's agenda. Analyze that idea throughout the book and discuss McMurtry's probable agenda concerning that idea.
2. Do you think writers who have an agenda for writing should point it out in a preface?
3. How often do you think fiction is written with a clear agenda in mind by the author?
Essay Topic 3
Horseman, Pass By, unlike perhaps a majority of novels, does not end on a happy note. Discuss the following:
1. Why do you think many people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why not?
2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of Horseman, Pass By and whether or not it fulfills all three, two or one of the reasons you mention. Give examples as to why Horseman, Pass By is or is not successful in fulfilling the reasons you discuss.
3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?
4. Discuss two ideas from Horseman, Pass By that you find intriguing and why.
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