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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 does Phoebe ask Jack as he begins his lunch?
2. Where does Jack sometimes find his father after the accident?
3. What sight does Jack see when he remembers his brother's death?
4. How does Jack come to feel about his raging on the tractor?
5. What is Phoebe doing in the kitchen when Jack comes in?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jack think about as he prepares the cows for milking after realizing why Phoebe wanted him to say grace? How does he feel as these thoughts enter his mind?
2. How does Jack feel after asking Yegudkin if he will ever play the horn as well as the teacher? How does Yegudkin respond?
3. Although he practices in the hayloft and is part of the civic orchestra, Jack refuses to play his horn either at church or at home. Why?
4. Where is Arcady Yegudkin from? How does he get to America? What is his story?
5. Describe Jack's uncles. What do they do on the farm? What do they look like? How do they behave?
6. Jack has a nightly routine upon entering the house. What is that routine? What seems different to him on this evening?
7. How does Jack's house compare to his work? What senses are aroused at home? What senses are aroused when he is out on the tractor? Why does Jack feel so uncomfortable in his home?
8. When Dale looks up to the door and sees Jack, what does Dale say to his son? How does Jack respond to his father?
9. 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?
10. Dale Hawthorne decides against suicide. Why does he do so? What does he do instead of killing himself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The narrator compares Jack working out his feeling while he works on the farm to acting on a stage. What is Jack's stage? What is his performance? Who is his audience?
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
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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