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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. At the time of the harvest, how long has Jack's father been gone?
2. When does Jack feel almost happy and content?
3. What is Jack's mother's support system after the accident?
4. While riding on the tractor, what things does Jack say about himself to himself?
5. What kinds of things does Jack's mother insist her children do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Jack's first reaction when he sees his father and what is occurring in the living room? Why can he not act on his impulse to run?
2. What does Yegudkin say about the fact that he is now too deaf to play in an orchestra?
3. How does Jack react every time he relives the image of his brother David being crushed by the cultipacker?
4. Where is Arcady Yegudkin from? How does he get to America? What is his story?
5. The author provides a vivid, detailed picture of Yegudkin, a much more detailed one than of any other character. What does Arcady Yegudkin look like?
6. When Jack first opens the door and sees his family gathered around his father, his aunt says to him, "It's all over. Your father is home." What does she mean by this?
7. As Jack rides the tractor after the accident and tells his stories of woe, how does he react to who he has become?
8. Jack begins to play the French horn in earnest. Why does he do this? Where does he practice?
9. With practice Jack is able to have major accomplishments with his horn playing. What are some of those accomplishments? Which ones seem especially important?
10. How does Jack's house compare to his work? What senses are aroused at home? What senses are aroused when he is out on the tractor? Why does Jack feel so uncomfortable in his home?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As he is working on the tractor after his brother's death, Jack sees the field he is plowing and sees "stones lay everywhere, yellowed in the sunlight, a field of misshapen skulls." Discuss this image.
Essay Topic 2
Jack did not stop the tractor once it had begun dragging the cultipacker over his brother's body. In the second sentence the narrator explains Jack could have applied the brakes and saved his brother. What are some possible reasons Jack did not stop the tractor but stood and watched his brother die instead?
Essay Topic 3
Why does Jack describe Phoebe as his "sole ally, already half traitor"?
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