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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. How long after they met did Silas's parents marry?
2. In Chapter 8, how long does it take the sheriff to hunt and kill rabbits?
3. How many feet of embankment is there between the cliff wall and the creek?
4. How many of the members of the Orange Street Gang were caught when there was a big gunfight?
5. How far do Silas and Mittenwool walk after the ghost of the sheriff's sister jumps off Pony and runs down the creek?
Short Essay Questions
1. What ghost does Silas see as he is telling the sheriff and deputy in Rosasharon his story?
2. Who arrives and speaks to Silas after the lawmen begin their approach to the cave, and what does she want?
3. As the deputy and sheriff prepare to storm the cave, who comes down to the creek?
4. What are Martin's last words to Silas?
5. Who were the Orange Street Gang?
6. What does Sheriff Chalfont tell Eben about answering his questions truthfull?
7. How did Eben and Seb get involved with Ollerenshaw?
8. How does Martin meet Elsa, his wife and Silas's mother?
9. What does Silas realize about the Morton brothers after they confess what they have been doing to Sheriff Chalfont?
10. What does the marshal tell Silas about counterfeiting?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Silas remembers stories and myths he has read as he makes his way toward the outlaws’ cave. What stories and myths does Silas remember? How do those stories and myths become tools for Silas’s behavior and self-discovery?
Essay Topic 3
The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of Pony and why is that incident the climax?
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