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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 time does Jody usually come home from school?
2. How does Jody prepare for riding his pony once it is ready?
3. Where did Carl get the pony from?
4. What season is it when Chapter 2 opens?
5. What makes Carl think that Easter is dead the morning Gitano leaves?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the stallion break his rope when he sees and smells Nellie for the first time?
2. What country owned the Tiflin ranch when Gitano was born there?
3. What lie does Jody tell when Carl asks him where he's been, when he's really been talking with Gitano late at night?
4. While Jody's mother often finds his hands to be dirty, why doesn't she make him wash them?
5. According to Jody, how does Gabilan express himself?
6. How does Mrs. Tiflin feel about Gitano staying at the ranch?
7. How will Jody pay back his father for the $5 it will take to breed Nellie with a stallion?
8. Who really teaches Jody how to get ready to ride his pony?
9. How does Jody react when he realizes he has killed a bird for the first time when Chapter 2 opens?
10. What, according to Billy, makes him "half horse"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The role of women in _The Red Pony_ is very limited and traditional in the text. Write an argument paper that discusses whether or not this is representative of women's roles at the time or if the author has simply treated the one female character of the text (Mrs. Tiflin) in a misogynistic and patronizing manner.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the conclusion of the novel, making sure to discuss how Steinbeck concludes (or doesn't conclude) at least two themes of the novel and what he implies will happen to at least 2 characters in the future.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss why Jody kills one of the buzzards when he sees it eating his dead pony. Why does he respond in this particular way? What does it symbolize? What does it show the reader about Jody?
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