Pax Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Sara Pennypacker
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Pax Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Sara Pennypacker
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 121 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. In Chapter 4, how long does the moon light Peter's way?

2. In Chapter 14, how many times does Peter circle around the cabin?

3. What does Peter buy at a store in Chapter 4?

4. What type of bird does Pax see in Chapter 3 as he waits by the road for Peter?

5. In Chapter 5, how long does Bristle say that Pax can stay with them?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Bristle and Runt's parents die?

2. Why does Peter watch a kid on the ball field who is wearing a red t-shirt?

3. Why did Bristle and Runt's parents go to a humans' farm?

4. What does Gray tell Bristle, Runt, and his mate that he will do in Chapter 9?

5. What things does Peter have that he kept after his mother died?

6. What is Peter's condition when he gets to the jog in the wall where he saw the deer earlier?

7. How does Vola set Peter's foot?

8. How does Pax feel at the beginning of Chapter 13?

9. How does Vola treat Peter's injury?

10. What does Runt look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Peter and Pax are two, but not two. In what ways are Peter and Pax bonded with one another? In what ways are they separate from one another? How does the theme of inseparability relate to Peter and Pax?

Essay Topic 2

Most of the time Peter has hope that Pax is surviving. Why does Peter vacillate between hope and despair when he thinks about Pax? In what ways does Peter merge with Pax? What can he sense about Pax? How does that cause him to hope? Why is Peter able to have hope that Pax is surviving?

Essay Topic 3

Pax has believed that humans are basically good. How does Pax feel about humans at the beginning of the novel? What does Pax learn about humans as the novel progresses? What does he learn about Peter? How and why do Pax’s view of humans begin to change in the book?

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