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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 Father say that lets Eldon know it's fall?
2. According to Eldon, what can be caught in the water trough where everyone washes up for dinner during thrashing time?
3. What does Eldon say all the stacks of hay look like in the field?
4. Uncle David says summer is close to fall, and spring is close to summer. To what season is winter close?
5. Why does the family butcher two geese every year?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are some of the smells Eldon describes in the opening chapter called "Tuning?"
2. Describe what Father is working on during his evenings in the winter room.
3. What are some of the things Eldon says happens when fall is over but winter hasn't yet formally arrived?
4. What do Eldon and Wayne do with the stack of straw near the barn and what do Mother and Father say about it?
5. How does Eldon describe the tractor and what does he say about his father being injured by the tractor?
6. When does Father take the plow shares in to be sharpened? Why does he do it then, and why does Eldon like to go along?
7. Describe what happens when Eldon and Mother take Father's lunch to the fields.
8. What does Eldon say about his dislike of fall?
9. Describe how and why Wayne jumps out of the barn loft.
10. Describe the room next to the kitchen in the family home.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the farm house. How many rooms are there? What are each of the rooms used for? Include some details about each of the rooms.
Essay Topic 2
What are the activities that go on in the winter room? Why are these important to each of the characters and to the family as a whole?
Essay Topic 3
Eldon talks about a time of division, such as the time between yesterday and today and the time between fall and winter. What does Eldon believe about the possibility that this division exists? What does Wayne believe? What do you believe? Why?
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