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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 is Jack's lawyer's name?

2. How does Andy's girlfriend feel about their relationship?

3. What object does Jack's lawyer see that has a picture of Jack's hero on it?

4. When Mat finds that Jack is dead, what is his reaction?

5. Who is Clara?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Jack's relationship with Glad like?

2. What does Andy do before he leaves Port William to go to college?

3. What kind of funeral does Mat know Jack wanted to have?

4. What does Andy begin thinking about as his conversation with Jack comes to a lull?

5. How did the townspeople feel about Rose McInnis and her husband?

6. What was Jack's relationship with his daughter Clara like?

7. What was Ruth's reaction when she discovered her husband's infidelities?

8. Why is Mat annoyed with the preacher during Jack's funeral?

9. What significant event occurred in Jack's life after Rose's death?

10. What happened between Jack and Rose following Jack's decision that he made after the accident on the flooded road?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jack remembers being drunk and initiating a fight with Sim McGrother. When he returns to his house, he sees his barn on fire. The reader never learns whether or not McGrother set the barn on fire, but the implication is there that McGrother was responsible. With what the reader knows of Jack as a person, is that type of violence toward Jack warranted? Why would the author have chosen to introduce that level of hatred toward the protagonist? Could the author have included that incident as a way for the reader to feel sympathetic toward Jack, or was the event strictly symbolic of something else in Jack's life? Write an essay that addresses these issues.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that explains how foreshadowing is used in the novel. When is foreshadowing used? Is foreshadowing used for a sole purpose, or for several different purposes in the novel? Did you notice foreshadowing as you were reading the novel the first time, or did you remember the elements of foreshadowing after you finished the novel? Be sure to give specific examples to support your analysis.

Essay Topic 3

The novel seems to use both exposition and flashbacks in the characters' memories to provide information about the past. Explain the difference between exposition and flashback and provide two examples of each literary element. Then explain whether or not you think this method of providing the reader with information about the past is effective.

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