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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. Which bone does the woman in Chapter 8 say that Peter has broken?

2. What is the strongest smell the fox can smell at the beginning of Chapter 1?

3. What charm is on Peter's mother's bracelet?

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

5. What is Peter's first mistake of the trip in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the fox sense that the car is slowing in Chapter 1?

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

3. What does the woman look like that Peter sees when he wakes in Chapter 8?

4. What does Pax see when he looks down into the meadow in Chapter 9?

5. What do Peter and Vola eat in Chapter 12?

6. How does Vola treat Peter's injury?

7. What happens when Gray and Pax meet the challenger fox?

8. What sense of the war does Pax get from the crows?

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

10. Why was it not safe for Pax to be near the hillside and meadow with the other foxes in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Peter welcomes his father’s hug when they meet toward the end of the novel. What type of relationship do the two have? How do the experiences in the novel affect their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

Pax is not welcomed by some of the wild foxes. How do the wild foxes treat Pax? Why do they treat him the way they do? How does Pax gain acceptance by the wild foxes?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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