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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. Runt's new partner is...
2. What change does Jerome make in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Grouch?
3. What is keeping Jerome awake at night?
4. What does Jerome regret about the people he encountered in his work?
5. Jerome attempts to get the skunky smell out of the cabin by...
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Jerome consider taking a floorboard out?
2. Although Jerome has given up stonecutting, his reaction to making Charmine's gravestone is interesting. Discuss what might be happening in this regard.
3. How does Emma Lou know the mountain lion is gone? Why doesn't she tell Jerome?
4. There is a telling sentence about Jerome's relationships with women in the description of Emma Lou. Do a close reading and discuss some possible meanings.
5. Why does Strong Heart come barking toward Jerome's house? What happens to him?
6. After carving Charmine's gravestone, what is Jerome inspired to do next? Why?
7. What makes Emma so contentious and determined to battle with Donald Cabot?
8. What does Jerome gather from Old Grouch's behavior while the baby skunks are under the house? What might his conclusions reveal about his own past?
9. When Jerome wakes up, the little fawn is hungry. What makes this passage humorous?
10. What do we learn in this chapter about Jerome's marital status?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Jerome is able to bridge the gap between the two cultures of the Eppys and the Cabots. How does he do this? Is it inadvertent? From what social class is Jerome Kildee, himself?
Essay Topic 2
Is Jerome Kildee a poor man? If not, how does the reader know? Do a careful reading of the story and find passages that reveal hints about Jerome's financial status, and draw your conclusions in a persuasive essay.
Essay Topic 3
Explore the first real turning point in the story that bonds Kildee and Emma Lou, and drives an even more severe wedge between Emma Lou and Donald Cabot. What is the real source of Emma's and Jerome's grief? Why do they become so upset to lose one of the raccoons, when they have so many to enjoy? What qualities have they assigned to Charmine? Why do they not grieve, for example, the death of the pack rats who are killed by skunks?
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