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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. Where does Megan go to tend to her ill mother in 1953?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Boston.
(d) New York.

2. What newspaper did George once read regularly at the kitchen table at lunchtime, according to the narrator in Chapter 4?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Chicago Tribune.
(c) The Montreal Herald.
(d) The Wall Street Journal.

3. Where did the local Indian work for many summers cutting wood, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) Mrs. Butter's Boarding House.
(b) The Great Western Hotel.
(c) The Blueberry Bed and Breakfast.
(d) The North Carry Hotel.

4. What clock on the wall is "worth ten times more than [George had] ever told anyone," according to the narrator in Chapter 4?
(a) The Joseph Johnson cuckoo clock.
(b) The Simon Willard banjo clock.
(c) The Karl Suchy Viennese wall clock.
(d) The Thwaites & Reed grandfather clock.

5. Who does Howard believe the Indian to be that he sees in the pond in Chapter 3?
(a) Dan Cooper.
(b) Old Red.
(c) Tom Budden.
(d) Old Sabbatis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book is cited with the description of the inner workings of a clock in Chapter 4?

2. What is referred to in Chapter 4 as "that part of a clock which keeps time"?

3. The narrator says in the opening of Chapter 4, "During the days, George was aware of a large group of people murmuring and flowing in and out of the room as if on tides." What literary device is used in this sentence?

4. How does the narrator describe George's wife's cooking in Chapter 4?

5. What are the men wearing as they wait outside to take Howard's father away in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does George ask for when he awakens in Chapter 4, Part 1? Who is sitting with George?

2. How does the theme of competition apply to the characters and relationship of George and Howard Crosby in Tinkers?

3. What is the last thing that George remembers before he dies in Chapter 4?

4. Who comes to visit George in the opening of Chapter 4? What does this character do during her visit?

5. What is epilepsy? How was this disorder treated in the 1920s/1930s?

6. What characters are introduced during Howard's journey to search for his father in Chapter 3, Part 2?

7. What is symbolic about the descriptions of Reverend Crosby fading from Howard's vision in Chapter 3, Part 1?

8. What is implied in the conversation between George's wife and Charlie in Chapter 4, Part 1?

9. How do George's memories of his father relate to the theme of rites of passage in Tinkers?

10. Where does Megan go during the Christmas holidays in 1953? What does Howard do after she leaves?

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