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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. How does Jack behave toward his father and his uncles while working?
2. What does Jack do while riding on the tractor?
3. What about his surroundings does Jack become aware of while eating his lunch?
4. What have his co-workers accepted about Jack when he stops working for lunch?
5. What month is it when Jack sits under the tree with Phoebe and has lunch?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Hawthorne family farm that Jack works on a year and a half later. What has changed? What remains the same?
2. Where does Jack find peace and solace? With whom does he talk?
3. What does Jack ask Yegudkin after he plays, and how does the teacher respond?
4. What conclusion does Jack come to about himself after realizing he does not love people as well as he should? How does he react to his own conclusions?
5. What does the reader realize when Yegudkin plays the French horn?
6. How does Jack respond to working with his uncles? How does he spend his time?
7. When he is driving the tractor, how does Jack's behavior mimic that of his father?
8. What are some of the ways Dale Hawthorne deals with his grief over the death of his son? What comment does the narrator make as to people's opinion of Hawthorne's behavior?
9. How does the family react to Dale Hawthorne's frequent disappearances? How does Jack react to his father's disappearances?
10. How do Jack's family and his mother's friends view his passionate interest in his horn? Are they concerned? Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As he is working on the tractor after his brother's death, Jack sees the field he is plowing and sees "stones lay everywhere, yellowed in the sunlight, a field of misshapen skulls." Discuss this image.
Essay Topic 2
Jack and Dale both struggle with both the question of the existence of God and the existence of good and evil after David's death. Discuss both character's different approaches to the struggle with these two topics.
Essay Topic 3
Based on the various pieces of information and historical references, approximately when does this story take place? Justify your answer.
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