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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. Which of the following was NOT one of Dick's "rememberables"?

2. How long do Whittington's injuries from the fight last?

3. Who does the carriage driver tell the agent that Dick is?

4. Who is the first animal to make friends with the black hen?

5. Who taught Dick Whittington to read?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lady stay safe from the rats?

2. What does the Lady tell Whittington about the horses, when Whittington first arrives in the barn?

3. What happens when the owl encounters Ben, Abby, Whittington, and the Lady?

4. In the fable the Lady tells, what does the rat save the lion from?

5. What horse operation does Bernie describe seeing?

6. How was Whittington separated from his boy?

7. What trouble does Ben have with the first word he learns?

8. How did Will Price get his scar?

9. Who brought the horses' ancestors to the Americas, and why?

10. Why was a good rat hunter invaluable to Dick Whittington?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the relationships between parents and children in the novel.

1) How do Ben and Abby suffer from not having their parents to care for them? How do their grandparents take the place of parents in their lives?

2) How is Dick's life affected by being separated from his parents as a young child? What characters act as parents to Dick?

3) What are the animals' relationships with their parents in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the danger and trials the characters go through in the novel.

1) What role do danger and trials play in Dick Whittington's life? What does danger teach him about the world?

2) What role does danger play in the animal world in the barn? Why is danger a part of life?

3) What dangers and trials do Abby and Ben face? How are the dangers they face different from those of the animals and of Dick Whittington?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss illness and injury in the novel.

1) How do the characters deal with illness in the novel? What ways do characters try to combat or prevent illness or injury?

2) What causes illness? To what extent is illness something that can be controlled?

3) How do characters help each other when they are ill or injured? What do experiences with illness or injury say about the characters' relationships?

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