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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 color skin does Gitano have?
2. What does Jody do after he learns Gitano has died?
3. What season is it when Chapter 2 opens?
4. What is the "carrion" that Jody mentions the buzzards are helpful with?
5. When does Billy Buck get up?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Carl say to Gitano about what should happen to old things?
2. Why does everyone on the ranch eat such a hearty breakfast?
3. What does Carl joke would be needed for Gitano to be put out to pasture?
4. Why does Jody stop running right before he meets Grandfather along the road?
5. What does Nellie let Jody do that is unusual, when Jody is taking her back from Jess's ranch?
6. How does Jody react when he realizes he has killed a bird for the first time when Chapter 2 opens?
7. When Chapter 3 opens, what does Jody imagine he is leading on his way home from school?
8. What does Gitano tell Jody and his mother the first time he meets them?
9. What does Jody mean when he says his mouth "works"?
10. While Jody's mother often finds his hands to be dirty, why doesn't she make him wash them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Male characters' displays of emotion take quite a variety of forms throughout _The Red Pony_. Choose three specific instances of when one male character has shown (or not shown) emotion and what the reader learns about that character as a result of how they behave emotionally.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the conclusion of the novel, making sure to discuss how Steinbeck concludes (or doesn't conclude) at least two themes of the novel and what he implies will happen to at least 2 characters in the future.
Essay Topic 3
A theme throughout _The Red Pony_ is Jody's transition from boyhood to manhood. Choose one particular moment when you think this transition officially happens, making sure to use quotations from the text to support your position.
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