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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 color is Twink's hair?

2. What is the name of the area where the Baxter men find the bears hunting salt water mullet?

3. Where does the Baxter family plan to spend their Christmas holidays?

4. Who does Jody attempt to talk to on the way to Volusia, prompting him to deeply miss Fodder Wing?

5. What is the name of the plague that is sweeping through the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jody know that Flag is maturing in the yearling phase of his life?

2. How is Penny coping with his groin injury at the time of Flag's bad behavior?

3. How does Jody build the fence that protects the corn crops from Flag?

4. Why doesn't Penny want to hunt the wolves with the Forrester family?

5. What happens when Jody is asked to pen Flag?

6. How does it happen that Jody kills his first bear?

7. Why does Jody view stormy weather as a particularly nostalgic time of his life?

8. How can Jody tell that Flag is beginning to mature into a buck?

9. After Flag dies, how does Jody plan to escape to Boston?

10. Why do Penny and Jody return to Mullet Prairie?

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, the colorful language of the farmers in both the Baxter and Forrester families comes to life. Choose one farm saying or figure of speech used by one of the characters and explain what it means. Then, explain how that figure of speech characterizes the speaker who used it and how the saying relates to the plot of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

The character of Twink plays an important role in adding conflict to the novel.

Part 1.) Describe Twink's character and explain why she was a desirable woman to the men in the novel.

Part 2.) Explain why Twink's character added conflict to the story and what the outcome of that conflict was.

Part 3.) Describe which man, either Oliver Hutto or Lem Forrester, would make a better husband for Twink and explain why.

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