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The Red Pony

John Steinbeck

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Gabilan is sick with:

(A) Botulism

(B) Strangles

(C) Rabies

(D) Tetanus

How old is Jody at the start of the novel?

(A) 8

(B) 10

(C) 13

(D) 15

The Cypress tree represents what?

(A) Evil

(B) Destiny

(C) Organic Life

(D) Mexican Culture

Which of the following foreshadows Gabilan's death?

(A) Jody's yearning to leave the ranch

(B) An early rainy season

(C) Vultures seen in the sky

(D) Carl Tiflin's foul mood

Which of the following is false?

(A) Jody learns to lead Gabilan

(B) Gabilan learns to wear a bridle

(C) Jody learns to ride Gabilan

(D) Jody learns to care for a sick horse

Gitano arrives at the ranch because

(A) he resents westward expansion

(B) he is looking for work

(C) he was born there

(D) he is a wandering gypsy

Which character most resents Gitano?

(A) Carl Tiflin

(B) Jody

(C) The neighboring rancher

(D) Billy Buck

The "nameless sorrow" that grips Jody at the end of the second story is most closely connected to which of the following?

(A) Gitano's Rapier

(B) His bad luck with horses

(C) The great mountains

(D) The loss of Easter

Billy Buck makes a rope out of

(A) Nellie's hair

(B) Gabilan's Hair

(C) Leftover Hay

(D) Hemp

Billy Buck is closest in age to

(A) Jody

(B) Jody's grandfather

(C) Carl Tiflin

(D) Gitano

Carl Tiflin

(A) is jealous of Jody's good prospects

(B) worries about keeping the ranch in business

(C) is the son of a man who led a wagon train across the Great Plains

(D) spoils his son by repeatedly giving him new horses

Where did John Steinbeck set his most famous novels?

(A) The Salinas Valley

(B) The Dust Bowl

(C) Stanford

(D) Africa

What is a paisano?

(A) A bridle

(B) A vagrant

(C) A Mexican

(D) A ranch hand

Jody fantasizes that his colt will be

(A) as gentle as Nellie

(B) a stallion named Black Demon

(C) red like Gabilan

(D) a trick pony

Steinbeck

(A) graduated from Stanford in 1925

(B) was born in Oklahoma, but moved because of the Dustbowl

(C) won the Nobel Prize in 1962

(D) grew up during the Great Depression

Jody's colt is

(A) due nine months after Nellie's breeding

(B) due around Thanksgiving

(C) due in mid-January

(D) stillborn

Nellie is

(A) a bridle

(B) a mare

(C) a gelding

(D) a colt

Jody looks forward to beating mice out of the haystack with

(A) Doubletree Mutt

(B) Billy Buck

(C) his grandfather

Jody's grandfather lives

(A) on the Great Plains

(B) in Monterey

(C) in the Salinas Valley

(D) in the adobe house on Carl Tiflin's land

Jody feels sorry for his grandfather, so he offers

(A) him lemonade

(B) to bring him a dead mouse

(C) to give him a new horse

(D) to travel with him back across the Great Plains

Carl Tiflin resents Jody's grandfather because

(A) he respects Billy more than Carl

(B) he works for paisano rights

(C) he repeatedly tells the same stories

(D) he mistreats horses

Steinbeck's style is

(A) florid and intellectual

(B) stream of consciousness

(C) plain

(D) melodramatic

Jody tells his grandfather that

(A) his father is simply a mean, needy person

(B) he would like to be a leader of the people

(C) he is looking for a girlfriend

(D) he has finally learned to ride his horse

Jody's grandfather always talks about

(A) the weather in Monterey

(B) how he would like to cross the Pacific

(C) how he crossed the Great Plains

(D) the Great Depression

Jody's father and mother argue about

(A) getting Jody a new horse

(B) whether to punish Jody for forgetting his chores

(C) whether his grandfather should come visit

(D) ranch finances

Billy Buck's feelings are hurt when

(A) Carl Tiflin lets Gitano stay the night

(B) Jody partly blames him for Gabilan's death

(C) Billy runs away from home

(D) he is made to live in the bunk house

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