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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Bobby when he gets an air rifle?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

2. What does fishing make easier to do according to the Old Man?
(a) Think.
(b) Eat.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Fight.

3. Who is Miss Lottie?
(a) Bobbie's aunt.
(b) Bobbie's grandmother.
(c) Bobbie's stepmother.
(d) Bobbie's schoolteacher.

4. What does the Old Man get in exchange for bringing meat and grain on credit?
(a) Fishing rights.
(b) Hunting rights.
(c) Dried shrimp.
(d) Food storage.

5. What does the Old Man want to explain the difference between to Bobby?
(a) Laziness and sloth.
(b) Meditative loafing and anxiety.
(c) Rushing and dreaming.
(d) Meditative loafing and laziness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it important to train a bird dog to be like?

2. What is the name of the puppy that the Old Man gives Bobby?

3. What does the Old Man say shooting ducks is all about?

4. In whose home does Bobby spend the summers and holidays?

5. What epidemic forces the closing of Bobby's school in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Old Man discourage Bobby from getting a horse?

2. Describe what Bobby shoots in Chapter 13.

3. Describe Bobby's experience buck hunting initially.

4. Describe how loafing is special and private according to The Old Man.

5. How does the hunting group in Chapter 7 find and get the turkeys to come out?

6. How does Bobby adapt and succeed at shooting a buck?

7. How does Bobby learn humility in Chapter 10?

8. Describe some of the customs that the Old Man and Bobby do in the month of October.

9. How do the farmers maintain quail supplies over the fall and winter?

10. What is important about the attitude of a bird dog according to the Old Man?

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