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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 is Mr. Willow's job?

2. Who hands out the bottles of medicine at the traveling show?

3. What is the giant balloon tethered to?

4. What is broken on the wagon Fleabottom stops to help?

5. What does Homer wake up inside of at the beginning of chapter nineteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way is Mr. Willow not the ideal companion for Homer?

2. Why is Homer able to see through the Nibbly's scam?

3. How does Homer escape the military?

4. What evidence is there that Fleabottom could be a spy?

5. Why is Mr. Willow so vulnerable?

6. How does Samuel Reed defeat Smelt and Stink?

7. Describe the performance Homer has to give in this section?

8. What do the traveling show learn about the war in chapter twenty six?

9. Why do the military surround the traveling show?

10. How does Mr. Brewster help out Homer in chapter fourteen?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who were the Underground Railroad? How accurate is the author's representation of the Underground Railroad?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the author's representation of Colonel Chamberlain.

1. How different is the author's representation of Colonel Chamberlain to how he is represented in the history books?

2. Why has the author represented him in this way? What effect does the author's representation have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

How has the death of Homer and Harold's mother effected the two boys? How would there lives be different if their mother would have survived?

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