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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. How many babies did Penny Baxter and his wife bury before Jody was born?

2. While hunting for Grandma Hutto, how many bucks do Penny and Jody kill?

3. As Jody watches the animal with its young, what does he realize about nature?

4. When the Baxter hogs were returned, what was included as a supposed peace offering?

5. What unusual animal does the Baxter family have drying in their smoke house?

Short Essay Questions

1. While walking to the fishing hole, what does Penny inform Jody about the Minorcans?

2. How does Buck Forrester teach Jody to rob a bee hive?

3. What happens when Jody goes swimming at Grandma Hutto's house?

4. Why does Penny shoot the doe while out searching for his missing hogs?

5. How is the Baxter family's limestone sinkhole divided?

6. How does Oliver react to hearing the news that Lem Forrester has claimed Twink as his sweetheart?

7. After living through the fistfight, what does Jody realize about Oliver Hutto?

8. When Penny realizes that the hogs are missing, what does he do?

9. How does the Baxter family feel about the need to have a watering well?

10. What happens when the Forrester boys wake up, thinking that they hear a "varmint" scratching around their mother's bedpost?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After Penny is injured by the rattlesnake, there is a period of time when Buck Forrester stays with the Baxter family. Compare/contrast life on the Baxter farm before and during Buck's time there and explain how Buck Forrester helped to change Ma Baxter's mindset about the Forrester family.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the novel, all three literary conflicts arise: man versus self, man versus man, and man versus nature. Choose which form of literary conflict you believe to be the strongest in the novel and explain why, citing at least three examples of this form of conflict.

Essay Topic 3

The title of the novel is "The Yearling," a title that can be taken two ways. Explain how the title of the novel could be describing Jody's life or Flag's life and how Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings parallels the two coming-of-age stories throughout the novel.

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