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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 is the name of the little farmer who is a strict Methodist and has a painful and embarrassing accident with a cow?

2. What is the name of the stray cat Mrs. Ainsworth befriends?

3. What does Hulton give James to eat and drink after James had successfully operated on the mother pig?

4. How many children does the vet who goes on vacation and leaves James in charge have?

5. What is the name of the racehorse owner who doesn't trust Herriot to treat his horses and wants Farnon instead?

Short Essay Questions

1. What experience does James have with Ralph Beamish the racehorse trainer?

2. Describe Mr. Grover, Herriot's dentist in Darrowby and Hector McDarroch the dentist James went to as a child in Glasgow.

3. Describe Mr. Gilby, the farmer, and mention an embarrassing thing that happens to him.

4. Why are Cedric the dog and Con Fenton such a perfect match?

5. What lesson does James learn from Mr. Stokill?

6. Describe the incident James dreams about when first in London with the RAF.

7. What was wrong with the dog in the car that waved James down when he was on his way home from castrating pigs and how does James handle the problem?

8. Describe Flight Sergeant Blackett and what surprises James about him.

9. Describe Lord Hulton and the situation James faces with his sow who has a prolapsed uterus.

10. When James graduates from AC2 what does he become and how do his wages change?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What problem did Cedric, Mrs. Rumney's dog have? Why did the dog and Con Fenton end up being a perfect match?

2) Describe Wesley Binks. What was his relationship with James at first and how did it change and why?

3) Tell about what happened when Tristan took over the cooking at Skeldale house for a week. What did he cook? What accident did he have?

Choose two of the topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Who was Mr. Barge? Describe him and what he did.

2) What is Soothitt? What is it supposed to do? What does it actually do in the book?

3) How is the farrowing pig finally calmed down? What does the dog, Coco, do that drives his owner crazy?

Choose two of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 3

1) Describe foot and mouth disease. Why was it so feared? Which one of the farmers in the book had animals that got the disease?

2) Why did James think the Mrs. Bailey;s cow had foot and mouth disease? What did the cow actually have? How did it get the condition?

3) Who is Mr. Daggett? Did you like the character. Why? or Why not?

Choose two of the topics to write on.

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