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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What recitation of his father's does Jack recall as he suffers his anger and grief?
(a) Brutus' soliloquy.
(b) Silas Marner's monologue.
(c) Cicero's final speech.
(d) Mark Antony's condemnation.

2. What is Phoebe's job after everyone has finished with lunch?
(a) To leave the basket and the leftovers for Jack to bring back later.
(b) To pick up everything, put it all in the basket, and bring the basket home.
(c) To pick up everything, throw it away, and go home.
(d) To fill the basket with dirty laundry and bring it home.

3. Who is working and helping to harvest the fields with Jack?
(a) His mother and grandfather.
(b) Phoebe and her friends.
(c) Friends and uncles.
(d) Neighbors and cousins.

4. Where did Jack's father perform?
(a) The town hall.
(b) The theatre hall.
(c) An outdoor theatre.
(d) The Grange.

5. When Jack cannot make his good feelings last, what does he do?
(a) He throws stones at the cows.
(b) He beats the cows.
(c) He screams at the cows.
(d) He runs to the barn.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jack stops for lunch after driving the tractor in the fields all morning, where does he sit?

2. What does Jack drink from the thermos Phoebe brings him?

3. Where does Jack feel a sense of belonging when he is working?

4. What does Jack do to try and block out the raging in his head?

5. What musical instrument does Jack's mother force on him?

Short Essay Questions

1. While Jack is sitting with Phoebe under the tree at lunchtime, he senses she wants to say something to him. How does he react? What might Phoebe wanted to talk about with her brother?

2. Describe Jack's uncles. What do they do on the farm? What do they look like? How do they behave?

3. Where is Arcady Yegudkin from? How does he get to America? What is his story?

4. When Jack leaves his lesson with Yegudkin, where does he go?

5. Jack has a nightly routine upon entering the house. What is that routine? What seems different to him on this evening?

6. As Jack rides the tractor after the accident and tells his stories of woe, how does he react to who he has become?

7. With whom does Jack begin studying French horn? What information are we given about this teacher in this section? Where does he teach?

8. When Jack comes into the house after work and finds the kitchen empty and the living room door closed, he opens the door to walk into the living room. Describe the scene Jack finds when he opens the door.

9. How does the narrator describe Jack's lessons with Yegudkin?

10. Describe the Hawthorne family farm that Jack works on a year and a half later. What has changed? What remains the same?

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