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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. How does the narrator describe George's wife's cooking in Chapter 4?
(a) Very good.
(b) Very fatty.
(c) Mediocre.
(d) Very bad.

2. What word from Chapter 3 means characterized by length of speech or wordiness, or scattered?
(a) Arbitrary.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Diffuse.
(d) Coercive.

3. What word used in Chapter 3 means characterized by low buffoonery?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Intrinsic.
(c) Epidemic.
(d) Scurrilous.

4. What shoes does Howard wear when he goes into the woods to look for his father after he's been taken away in Chapter 3?
(a) His mother's slippers.
(b) His father's boots.
(c) His brother's sneakers.
(d) His rain boots.

5. What were Ed Titcomb and his friend doing when they came upon Howard in the woods in Chapter 3?
(a) Collecting arrowheads.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Gathering firewood.
(d) Going to their mother's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Nikki Bocheki's profession?

2. What word used to describe the Indian in Chapter 3 means relating to a former or more primitive type?

3. The narrator says in Chapter 3 as Howard searches the woods for his father, "The tom-tom tap of a pileated woodpecker sounded from somewhere in the woods, to Howard's left." What literary device is used in this sentence?

4. What alias does Howard Crosby take on when he moves to Philadelphia?

5. What is Howard's mother doing when he returns from the woods after having his first seizure in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Howard's death described in Chapter 4? What is this description juxtaposed against?

2. How does Howard's medical condition change after he moves away and begins living under an alias?

3. How would you compare the "disappearances" of Reverend Crosby and Howard Crosby in the novel?

4. How would you describe the language style of Tinkers? Is the language easy to understand?

5. Who does Howard Crosby marry in Philadelphia? How is this character described?

6. How did Howard's loss of his own father later influence his actions with his wife and children?

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

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

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

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

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