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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 do the men talk about while they are at the feed store?
2. What recitation of his father's does Jack recall as he suffers his anger and grief?
3. What does Jack notice about his sister as she is laying out the food?
4. What does Phoebe ask Jack as he begins his lunch?
5. How old is Jack's mother?
Short Essay Questions
1. The narrator describes a soliloquy spoken by Jack's father at the Grange one night. How does Jack remember his father on that evening? Why does he recall this memory when he is angry?
2. How do Jack's family and his mother's friends view his passionate interest in his horn? Are they concerned? Why?
3. Where does Jack find peace and solace? With whom does he talk?
4. Jack has a nightly routine upon entering the house. What is that routine? What seems different to him on this evening?
5. What does Yegudkin say about the fact that he is now too deaf to play in an orchestra?
6. When Dale Hawthorne returns home after his three week absence, he does not leave again. What does he do to occupy his time? What does he do when he becomes restless?
7. In this story, Jack and Phoebe have very traditional roles. What are the roles each play?
8. What do we know about Yegudkin's wife? What does she look like? What does she do?
9. What is Jack's "black memory"? What sounds and sights does Jack relive in his black memory?
10. Jack and Phoebe have an interchange about saying grace over lunch. What is that interchange, and why is important to the story?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Of all the characters in the story, Betty Hawthorne has the most stability. Discuss her support system, and how her traditional role as a wife and mother help her cope with the death of her son.
Essay Topic 2
How is Jack's experience with death and loss similar to that of Yegudkin? How is it different?
Essay Topic 3
Jack's mother says "that horn's his whole world." Is this indeed true? What else does Jack have in his life?
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