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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 does Lem Forrester trade to Penny in exchange for the fiest?

2. What does Jody give to Doc in exchange for healing his father?

3. Who is watching over Jody when he awakens from the fistfight?

4. After being accused of having Eulalie Boyles as his sweetheart, what does Jody throw at Eulalie Boyles?

5. What type of tree does Fodder Wing claim resembles a Spaniard mounting his horse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jody do in the middle of the night after Old Slewfoot has been killed and everyone has fallen asleep?

2. What reaction does Jody have when Old Slewfoot kills the Baxter family's pregnant sow?

3. Jody and his father have what reaction to Fodder Wing's baby raccoon?

4. How did Fodder Wing earn his nickname, and what was the result of his accident?

5. After the fistfight, what does Oliver ask of Jody, and what is Jody's response?

6. While Penny and Jody are hunting for Grandma Hutto, a buck is killed. Describe both Jody's and Penny's roles in the buck's death.

7. How does the Baxter family feel about the need to have a watering well?

8. What happens when Jody eats half-ripe berries from the woods?

9. How does the Baxter family prepare the buck that Penny shoots with his new gun?

10. When Penny realizes that the hogs are missing, what does he do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the middle of the novel, there is a flood that overtakes the Baxter's land.

Part 1.) Describe the effects that the flood had on the land surrounding the Baxter's farm.

Part 2.) Describe the ways that the Baxter family was directly affected by the flood's damages.

Part 3.) Explain how the Baxter family survived in the months following the flood's damages.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel, all three literary conflicts arise: man versus self, man versus man, and man versus nature. Choose which form of literary conflict you believe to be the strongest in the novel and explain why, citing at least three examples of this form of conflict.

Essay Topic 3

After Flag's death, Jody decides that running away from his family is the best option.

Part 1.) Describe Jody's plans to run away and how he will execute those plans.

Part 2.) Explain the emotions that Jody felt when he was running away and his motivations for wanting to leave his family behind.

Part 3.) Describe the lessons that Jody learned while he was on the run and what his conclusions about life with his family were.

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