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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 instrument did Silas's mother play?

2. What color are Martin's eyes?

3. When Silas attended school for a short time, with what did the teacher rap his hand?

4. What name does Silas wonder if he should name Pony in Chapter 4?

5. In Chapter 4, what is Silas doing when Mittenwool catches up with him after the scene in the bog?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Silas's thoughts about memory at the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. What does Silas say about his father and his father's inventions?

3. How do Marshal Farmer and Silas find the trail of Silas's pa and the other men?

4. What do three men who come in the night in Chapter 1 want with Martin?

5. What happened when Martin took a picture of the full moon for the lunar photo contest?

6. Who was Telemachus?

7. What experience did SIlas have with going to school?

8. What contest did Silas and his father want to enter?

9. Under what conditions does Martin agree to go with Rufe, Seb, and Eben?

10. What does Martin tell Silas to do when men with guns come in the night in Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood of Pony, what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood in different sections?

Essay Topic 2

Martin Bird is a photographer. Was Martin a counterfeiter? What role does photography play in counterfeiting?

Essay Topic 3

Silas has to maintain hope that his father is all right. What role does hope play in Silas’s journey? How is hope used as a symbol in Pony?

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