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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 is the name of Howard's mule?
(a) Prince Edward.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Peter the Great.
(d) Clara.
2. What ailment does Howard suffer from?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Epilepsy.
(c) Blindness.
(d) Asthma.
3. What author did the hermit whose tooth Howard pulls attend college with, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Percy Shelley.
(b) Nathaniel Hawthorne.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
4. The drowned child that Howard fishes from a creek is the daughter of what widow?
(a) La Rose.
(b) Anderson.
(c) Petrie.
(d) Jameson.
5. How many days before he dies does George begin hallucinating?
(a) Six days before he dies.
(b) Two days before he dies.
(c) Three days before he dies.
(d) Eight days before he dies.
Short Answer Questions
1. The narrator says of Kathleen in Chapter 2 that her "stern manner and her humorless regime mask" what?
2. What is the name of the man driving the flatbed truck as the doctor's house is moved in Chapter 2?
3. What word is used in Chapter 1 to refer to angels?
4. Who does the narrator describe as having gone mad and lit his house on fire, killing himself and a woman with two children, in Chapter 2?
5. What objects did George begin repairing and trading after his retirement?
Short Essay Questions
1. What relationship does George Washington Crosby have with clocks in the novel? How did this relationship begin?
2. How would you describe the differences between George and Howard Crosby in terms of their successes in life?
3. How does the setting change in Chapter 1 when George's family leaves him to prepare lunch?
4. What is signified by Howard's action of building a fire after his seizure in Chapter 1, Part 2?
5. What does George discover in his mother's pamphlet in Chapter 2, Part 2? How does she respond when she finds him reading it?
6. Who appears to be reading to George when he awakens in Chapter 1, Part 2? What book is being read?
7. How does the author go about illustrating the opposite natures of George and Howard in Chapter 2?
8. What does George think about as he begins his chores on Monday in Chapter 2, Part 1? What does Howard think about?
9. How is the setting described when George awakens "one hundred and thirty-two hours" before he dies in Chapter 1?
10. How would you describe George's relationship to animals and nature based upon his actions in Chapter 2?
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