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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. What does Sylder's wife wonder about her husband when he returns from his drop-off?
(a) Why he has lipstick on his cheek.
(b) Why his shoes are muddy.
(c) Why his coat is wet.
(d) Why he is laughing.

2. To whose house do the boys go to talk about the skunk?
(a) Widow Rennart's.
(b) Uncle Ather's.
(c) Sylder's.
(d) Mr. Wren's.

3. Which is true of the orchard keeper's environment when he awakens?
(a) Everything is quiet.
(b) All of these.
(c) It has snowed.
(d) Nothing is stirring.

4. What does Sylder tell John Wesley about Gifford?
(a) He is a very dangerous man.
(b) He will be back to arrest them.
(c) He was bluffing John Wesley.
(d) He is an idiot.

5. What rouses the large cat in Ownby's outhouse?
(a) A thunderclap.
(b) Lightning.
(c) Rain seeping in.
(d) A gunshot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John Wesley bring to Ownby in the mental asylum?

2. Who is the storekeep that Gifford questions about Ownby?

3. What type of animal has been asleep in Ownby's outhouse?

4. How long does it take for Ownby to show up at the store and for Gifford to arrest him?

5. What does John Wesley try to recover from the courthouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sylder recall losing part of his toe in the war?

2. Describe the conversation in which Ownby gives John Wesley advice about his life.

3. What is the significance of cats in the story?

4. Why can the authorities not be absolutely certain that the corpse is that of Kenneth Rattner and what do they tell Rattner's widow?

5. What are John Wesley and Warn's speculation on what had happened to the mink?

6. How does Arthur stand firm in an attempt to evade the police and find an even more isolated location?

7. How is Sylder finally apprehended for bootlegging?

8. Describe Ownby's arrest by Officer Gifford.

9. Why does McCarthy wait until this point in the story to reveal the orchard keeper's formal name?

10. How is the dead cat symbolic of Kenneth Rattner?

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