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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. Where do Nathan and Gus finally find Travis Klement once they locate him?
2. When Officer Doyle, Gus, and Frank pass by the Emil Brandt's house in Officer Doyle's Studebaker, who is sitting on the porch with Emil?
3. What difficult task does Lise assign to Frank and Jake when the three are gardening together?
4. Why does Jake want Frank to answer people's questions about the incident with Emil instead of answering himself?
5. What object does Frank see sticking out of Danny's Uncle Warren's pocket?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Frank so surprised when Officer Doyle asks him his opinion about this year's Minnesota Twins team and asks about his own experiences with baseball?
2. How is the character of Julia Brandt a foil to the character of Ruth Drum?
3. What causes Frank to abruptly run away from the Indian man and to drag Jake along with him?
4. During Gus' and Frank's conversation about Nathan's experiences in the war, what two sources of information does Gus warn Frank against heeding?
5. How does Gus' monologue about killing a man relate to the novel's title?
6. How does Officer Doyle's search of Warren Redstone's lean-to sway the reader's opinion of Warren Redstone's character?
7. What messages is the reader meant to absorb from the conversation between Frank and Warren Redstone in the O'Keefes' basement?
8. How does Frank convince his dad to give him the tire iron for the boys' walk home from the jail and what do they subsequently do with it?
9. What is ironic about Lise's reaction to Frank's grabbing of her shoulder when they succeed in moving the huge rock in her garden?
10. When Frank and Jake come upon the Indian man and the apparently lifeless man referred to as Skipper, the Indian man says, "Know what I like about railroad tracks? They're always there but they're always moving" (32). When Jake replies, "Just like a river" (32), why is Frank shocked at Jake's reply?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the author's use of red herrings within his mystery narrative. How are they used and what messages does the author send through their use?
Essay Topic 2
There are 24 instances of the word "true" within the novel. How does the motif of truth function within the novel and what is Krueger's message regarding truth, lies, and hypocrisy?
Essay Topic 3
Many of the novel's characters have war experiences in their pasts that significantly affect their futures. Choose three of these characters, analyze their relationships to war experiences, and state and prove the author's message about the nature of war.
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