View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mary worried about regarding the divorce from Bart?

2. Who does Phil Drake quote while talking to Bart in the den?

3. How many shells does the .460 Weatherbee hold?

4. How many people come to take possession of Bart's home?

5. Bart places some money in a beer stein that Mary got for him. What does it say on the stein?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Walt Hamner's Principle of The Pleasure Push.

2. What is the last thing that Magliore agrees to do for Bart?

3. What does Bart tell the reporter about why he is doing what he is doing?

4. What precautions does Bart make prior to the police and men from the city showing up?

5. What happens to allow Bart to admit that he is crazy?

6. Why does Bart think that Fenner, the man from the city, is there to see him on the morning of January 5th?

7. Over the last few months, Bart has changed a lot. What does he think about when recalling the last few months?

8. What were differences between the way Mary and Bart handled Charlie's first day at nursery school?

9. What specific information does Fenner have on Bart to force a faster sale on Bart's home?

10. Why is it important that Bart runs into Drake in the den at the New Year's Eve party?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Bart's dreams.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Bart's mental status throughout the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Bart's home mean so much to him that he is willing to do whatever needs to be done?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 899 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample