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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 is Georgie doing in her dream?

2. Whom does Polly Barfod want to marry?

3. Why does Georgie allow Billy to accompany her on her journey?

4. Where does Georgie bathe on the second night of her journey?

5. What does Ma give Agatha on Christmas Day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Agatha step into the migrating flock of pigeons and spin?

2. What makes Georgie question the validity of her sister's funeral?

3. How does Georgie seek to make her Grandfather happy?

4. What type of "horse" does Billy loan to Georgie and how does he force himself on her journey?

5. Why does Georgie tell Mr. Olmstead about Agatha kissing Billy?

6. How does Georgie fend off the cougar attack?

7. Why does Georgie describe the pigeon nesting as "a battlefield"?

8. Why does Grandfather Bolte refuse to give his permission for Agatha to go to the University of Wisconsin?

9. What is the significance of Georgie's statement that she wishes Billy McCabe was only "a block of carved wood"?

10. Why does Georgie consider her five Bechtler dollars to be worth twenty dollars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What characteristics are revealed about Georgie during her encounter with Mrs. Garrow? What suspicions does she begin to have when she first encounters Mrs. Garrow? How are those suspicions later confirmed?

Essay Topic 2

Georgie dreams of running the family business with her sister. Considering Agatha’s character, is this a reasonable assumption on Gerogie’s part? What attributes of Agatha’s character might make it difficult for her to run a business?

Essay Topic 3

Agatha once comments to her sister: “I don’t know how you can be so sure about putting creatures to death.” By the end of the novel, Georgie says she has stopped hunting because “Truth be told, I don’t find taking life - any life – palatable anymore.” Explain how and why Georgie’s attitude towards hunting has changed throughout the course of the novel.

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