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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mother have to do for Father as Sammy takes the horse away following Father's return?

2. By the day after the arrival at the farm, what information do the townspeople know?

3. Where does Sammy take the horse after his father's return to the farm?

4. What is the best description of how Father looks as he listens to Sammy after he has returned to the farm?

5. There are individuals waiting for Father to return to the farm. Where are they waiting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write about the social convention of the way women were viewed during this time in, as portrayed in this essay. Why do you think the author wrote this story with regard to the way women were viewed? What was the author's point in writing this short story? Was she trying to effect change or simply providing a humorous look at marriage?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about tone used in the story as Mother is characterized. Mother is portrayed using sarcasm, anger, and submission. Does the author do an adequate job of developing these different tones of Mother's voice? Or does Mother appear to be erratic as she moves from one attitude to another so many times throughout the story?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining if you think this story was meant to be controversial for the time in which it was written. Use the time in which the author was writing as compared to the time during which the story takes place to support your answers.

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