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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. Whose hideout is in a cave?
(a) Warn's.
(b) John Wesley's.
(c) Sylder's.
(d) The orchard keeper.
2. Why do Gifford and some other policemen arrive at Ownby's house?
(a) To take him to a funeral.
(b) To question him.
(c) To see if he needs anything.
(d) To arrest him.
3. Uncle Ather tells the boys about a time when he caught a _______________.
(a) shark.
(b) bear.
(c) fox.
(d) panther kitten.
4. What does Sylder say when John Wesley offers to make Gifford pay for what he did to Sylder?
(a) All of these.
(b) He doesn't want John Wesley to get in any trouble.
(c) It could mean more trouble for him if John Wesley did anything to Gifford.
(d) He wants John Wesley to stay out of it.
5. What does John Wesley promise to take care of for Ownby?
(a) His still.
(b) His orchard.
(c) His house.
(d) Scout.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Sylder lose part of his toe?
2. Why does Gifford want to see Sylder?
3. How much money does John Wesley leave for the chickenhawk even though he could not get the corpse?
4. What does John Wesley find in his trap the next day?
5. How old was Mildred Rattner when she died?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of cats in the story?
2. What emotions does the orchard keeper have when he finds the peach pit smoldering?
3. Why does McCarthy wait until this point in the story to reveal the orchard keeper's name?
4. How else might the irony of Sylder and John Wesley's friendship be interpreted?
5. What are John Wesley and Warn's speculation on what had happened to the mink?
6. Why is Sylder's toe injury probably unrelated to a war injury?
7. Why does Gifford focus his question about Ownby on a storekeep named Huffaker?
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. What sense of foreboding does Sylder have as he tries to fall asleep?
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