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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. What kind of car is Nikki Bocheki driving when he visits George in Chapter 4?
2. Edward Billings is the manager of what bank frequented by George?
3. As Howard stands in the silt of the pond outlet in the woods in Chapter 3, the narrator describes the sticks and branches on the pond bed as feeling like what to him?
4. Of his parents, Howard says in Chapter 3, "That he and my mother should wrestle him into his clothes in the dark seemed" what?
5. Where did the local Indian work for many summers cutting wood, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the theme of competition apply to the characters of Howard and Reverend Crosby?
2. How would you describe the language style of Tinkers? Is the language easy to understand?
3. What regret does Howard display regarding his father in the beginning of Chapter 3?
4. What is the principle motif used throughout Tinkers? What does this motif represent?
5. How would you compare the "disappearances" of Reverend Crosby and Howard Crosby in the novel?
6. Whom does George ask for when he awakens in Chapter 4, Part 1? Who is sitting with George?
7. How does Howard's medical condition change after he moves away and begins living under an alias?
8. What characters are introduced during Howard's journey to search for his father in Chapter 3, Part 2?
9. Who comes to visit George in the opening of Chapter 4? What does this character do during her visit?
10. Where does Howard go to search for his father after Reverend Crosby's disappearance in Chapter 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and analyze the characters of Reverend and Mrs. Crosby in Tinkers. How old are Rev. Crosby and Mrs. Crosby in Howard’s flashbacks to his father’s mental deterioration? What kind of relationship do they have with their son? What do you think are the causes of Reverend Crosby’s collapse?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the unseen character of Tom Budden and the story about Budden’s house in Chapter 2. Why does the author include this story in Tinkers? What does the door to Tom Budden’s house represent symbolically in the novel?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the author’s literary allusions in Tinkers to The Scarlet Letter. When was The Scarlet Letter written? What subject matter is the story focused on? Where did Nathaniel Hawthorne supposedly attend college with the hermit Gilbert in Tinkers? What similarities do you see between the subjects and themes of The Scarlet Letter and Tinkers? Why do you think the author chooses to allude to this novel in Tinkers?
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