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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 Prentiss retreat into in Chapter 20?
(a) Music outside.
(b) The darkness.
(c) His own head.
(d) Watching the moon.

2. Who lives with the prostitute Isabelle visits in Chapter 19?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her daughter.

3. In Chapter 19, who does Isabelle visit after traveling to the jail?
(a) Annil.
(b) Henry.
(c) James.
(d) Mildred.

4. Why does Isabelle return to Clementine's in Chapter 19?
(a) To sing with her.
(b) To ask her for a favor.
(c) To tell her to stop seeing George.
(d) To give her money.

5. Who is the man in Old Ox who is always asleep?
(a) Henry Jordan.
(b) Ray Bittle.
(c) Frank.
(d) Ezra.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Prentiss fantasize about with the person who poses as his cousin in Chapter 20?

2. Who mostly guards Prentiss in jail?

3. Where is the person who poses as Prentiss's cousin originally from?

4. In Chapter 15, what does Prentiss refuse to do?

5. What had Prentiss considered buying in town?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does George immediately think killed Landry?

2. In Chapter 20, what does Hackstedde do that annoys Prentiss?

3. In Chapter 21, where does Caleb go to get a horse and why?

4. What does General Glass ask Wade Webler for?

5. What does August do to Landry when Landry discovers him and Caleb at the pond?

6. What work does Caleb do upon his return from the war?

7. In Chapter 20, what seems to be sure to be Prentiss's fate?

8. In Chapter 19, what does Mildred tell Isabelle about George?

9. Whose idea is it to meet Caleb at the pond, and what do they do there?

10. Why does George insist on going with Prentiss and Caleb as they escape?

(see the answer keys)

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