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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack say to his father while he stands in the living room door?

2. What question does Jack ask Yegudkin after hearing him play?

3. How does Jack feel when his aunt speaks to him in the living room?

4. On what day are Jack's music lessons?

5. How does the graduate student react to his teacher's horn playing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Although this is a piece of fiction, Gardner did live on a farm and did run over his brother with a tractor when they were young. Does it help or hinder to know the basis of this story is part of the writer's experience?

Essay Topic 3

Jack's mother says "that horn's his whole world." Is this indeed true? What else does Jack have in his life?

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