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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 Mungo constantly wear?

2. What is Mungo's mother's full name?

3. In Chapter 10, who is being beaten?

4. What story does Mungo tell Gallowgate in Chapter 3?

5. What nickname do the neighbors call Mr. Calhoun?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mo-Maw sending Mungo away with to go fishing?

2. What is the rumor about Poor-Wee-Chickie?

3. What does Mungo like about James at first?

4. What does Mungo tell Mo-Maw when he calls her?

5. What is James's relationship with his father like?

6. How do people in town generally feel about Hamish?

7. What feeling does Mungo begin to get from the men who take him fishing?

8. How does Mungo treat Mo-Maw when she comes back in Part II?

9. What do the men who take Mungo fishing do a lot of?

10. What does Hamish make Mungo do in Part I that Mungo hates?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Mungo so reluctant to ever drink, and how does he handle Mo-Maw's alcoholism? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Stuart chooses to open the novel with Mungo's leaving the city with St. Christopher and Gallowgate, and then he works backwards from there temporally? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why do you think Stuart concludes the novel with James and Mungo gazing at each other across the highway, with Mungo knowing he will likely never see James again even though he wishes to run away with James? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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