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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. In Chapter 9, how long had it been since Bartle had been sober?

2. In Chapter 6 after Bartle was pulled to the orchard floor, what position did voices call out for the men to start shooting?

3. When does Chapter 8 take place?

4. How did Murph leave in Chapter 10?

5. What color was the chapel painted in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Bartle doing at the beginning of Chapter 7?

2. In Chapter 7, what did Bartle remember Murph telling him about some canaries?

3. In Chapter 10, what did a man say about seeing Murph?

4. What did Sterling and Bartle do with Murph's body?

5. In Chapter 6, what did the city look like when Bartle and the other men walked through it?

6. What did Bartle see in Chapter 6 as he and the other men walked on line through the ragged grove?

7. In Chapter 7, why did Luke call 911?

8. What did Bartle spend a great deal of time trying to identify when he noticed changes in Murph in Chapter 8?

9. How did Bartle describe the location of his mother's house?

10. In Chapter 6, as Bartle and the other men stormed the orchard, what did they see when the bullets started being fired?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A photographer takes a photo of a dead private on the battlefield. Does the photographer seem to have regard for the significance of the death? What seem to be the photographer’s motives for taking the picture? How could the photograph be a sign of respect?

Essay Topic 2

Murph’s father took some canaries from the mine and tried to set them free. What did the canaries do when they were set free? What do those canaries symbolize in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Mood in a novel is the overall feeling that readers have when they read a story. How does the author create mood in the novel? What is the overall mood in the book?

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