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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 illness does Homer think he has convinced the crowd at the dock he has?

2. Where does Homer watch most of the medicine show from?

3. Who surround the medicine show and calls for Fleabottom to surrender?

4. What is the young man using hot balloons to do?

5. What does Homer say booms into the night as the bottles are handed around?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Samuel Reed defeat Smelt and Stink?

3. What do the Confederates do with Homer when they capture him?

4. Why do the military surround the traveling show?

5. Who is Mr. Willow?

6. Summarize chapter sixteen?

7. Why is Mr. Willow so vulnerable?

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

9. Summarize chapter seventeen.

10. How does Mr. Willow help Homer in this section?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the book and helps to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the structure of the book.

How does the author use character and dialogue to drive the narrative?

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

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