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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 Pa issue orders for?

2. What are the people doing that helps to form Ma's opinion of them?

3. Why does Ma feel obligated to encourage Pa to seek out his ambitions?

4. What does Pa vow as he leaves?

5. What does Pa return with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Pa, Ma and the captain discuss and what promise does Pa make to the captain?

2. What information does Ma share with the audience in her soliloquy?

3. How does Manure convince Pa to have the feast and distribute the money?

4. What happens when Pa tries to ride the horse and how do Ma and Pa react?

5. What does Wenceslas say about Rosamund's concern and how does she and Buggerless respond?

6. What does Pa say about Poland as the play ends?

7. What does Pa have to say about Manure and how does Ma respond?

8. As Pa is leading the army on a march to Russia what is he complaining about?

9. What happens when Pa goes to the peasants and demand they pay their taxes?

10. What does Ma find as she searches for the kingdom's treasure and how does she react?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What type of person is Pa? Would you want him to be your friend? Why or why not? What type of job do you think Pa would succeed at doing? Why do you think this way?

Essay Topic 2

How does the chaotic writing style used by the author help to make one of the play's key thematic points? Do you agree with this thematic point? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

There is a great amount of violence in the play. In what ways is the violence necessary? Do you believe it helps to enhance the novel or detract from it? Why do you think this way?

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