The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 102 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 102 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Where is Henry sent instead of Japan?

2. What does Henry remember smoking in the barn?

3. What does Henry give his dog when he is packing his truck?

4. What does Henry do in his irritation?

5. What is Henry annoyed by after Elaine leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Henry's experience of the war like?

2. What do Henry's parents say about him?

3. What causes Henry Lightcap to think of Red Ginter?

4. Describe Henry's house in El Culito.

5. Describe Henry's dinner with Van Hoss.

6. What does Henry think about cooking, and Elaine's cooking in particular?

7. Why doesn't Henry qualify as a marksman?

8. What is Henry's interaction with Don Williams?

9. Describe Will's decision to fight in WWII and its effect on the family.

10. What is Henry's relationship with the landscape?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What purpose does Henry's secret have in the novel? What is the secret, and how does our ignorance of the secret (as well as our speculation, as Henry recounts his life stories) affect our reading experience? What do we expect the secret to be?

Essay Topic 2

How does Abbey feel about death? Henry Lightcap approaches it with bravado and panache, but what are Abbey's feelings about it, as the author?

Essay Topic 3

Where does the novel change voices or tones, and what do these shift in voice or tone tell us about the book? How does the prelude, for instance, frame the book by being told from another person's perspective?

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