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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 the date of Peter’s first diary entry in Chapter Eighteen?
2. What is the diary entry dated that comprises Chapter Six?
3. Who does Peter say was murdered in the night and his store looted in Chapter Nine?
4. Chapter Four begins in the spring of what year?
5. What are the names of Peter’s two sons?
Short Essay Questions
1. What information does Phineas present to Jeanne when she visits him in Austin in Chapter Twenty?
2. What action does the Colonel take after Peter’s son has been shot in Chapter Six?
3. What concerns Jeanne the most as she faces her own death in Chapter Five?
4. How does the McCullough family’s acquisition of the Garcias’ land impact the community in Chapter Eighteen? How does Peter feel about the acquisition?
5. Why are homesteaders like Eli’s family in danger of raids? What has created these circumstances?
6. How is Peter’s relationship with the Garcia family illustrated in Chapter Three?
7. What time period is Chapter Four set in? How old is Eli, and what position does he have within his family?
8. How do the Colonel and Charles differ in their viewpoints about their land and future?
9. How does Peter’s account of the incident with the Garcias differ from his father’s in Chapter Six?
10. How are the living conditions of the Indians described in Chapter Nineteen?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of “history versus reality” in The Son. How reliable are the narrators of the story? Do you believe that each of the narrators is relating direct truth? Why or why not? How does “history” from the books differ from the realities of the past? How are these differences highlighted in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the characters of Jeanne McCullough and Eli McCullough in the novel. How are Jeanne and her great-grandfather alike? How do they differ? What kind of relationship did Jeanne have with the Colonel before he died?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the author’s historical depictions of the Indian raids in Texas in the 1840s. How frequently were homes attacked in the settlements that bordered on or crossed into Indian Territory? How did these raids impact Indian/Settler relations? How accurate are the author’s depictions of this era and the surrounding circumstances of both the settlers and the Native Americans?
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