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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 Rufe Jones wearing over his shoulders when the lawmen approach the cave with the rabbits?
2. What does Silas pick in Chapter 5, that the marshal tells him are poisonous?
3. Where was Mac Boat from?
4. How many volumes are in the series of books Silas loves called A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature?
5. Where does the ghost of the sheriff's sister tell Silas that she left their mother's plum pudding for him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What plan do the lawmen contrive?
2. How does Martin meet Elsa, his wife and Silas's mother?
3. What does Sheriff Chalfont tell Eben about answering his questions truthfull?
4. What scares Silas as he goes down the path under the waterfall toward the outlaws' cave?
5. What does Eben say that Ollerenshaw wants Martin for in addition to help counterfeiting?
6. What does Silas do when he sees a man drawing a bead on Sheriff Chalfont?
7. As the deputy and sheriff prepare to storm the cave, who comes down to the creek?
8. What happens when Rufe Jones attacks Silas?
9. What ghost does Silas see as he is telling the sheriff and deputy in Rosasharon his story?
10. What proposition does Ollerenshaw have for the sheriff?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Silas remembers stories and myths he has read as he makes his way toward the outlaws’ cave. What stories and myths does Silas remember? How do those stories and myths become tools for Silas’s behavior and self-discovery?
Essay Topic 2
Silas finds memory to be a strange thing. How does Silas view memory? How do memories help him deal with his circumstances?
Essay Topic 3
Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood of Pony, what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood in different sections?
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