Name: ________________________________                    April Morning Exam

 

Part I – Identify: For each character listed, give some information about their personality, classify their relationship to Adam Cooper, and describe their role in the novel.

 

1. Moses
2. Sarah
3. Granny
4. Levi
5. Joseph Simmons
6. Ruth
7. Solomon Chandler
8. Reverend

 

Part II – Short Answer:  Explain using as much detail as necessary to thoroughly answer each question.

 

1. During the course of the novel, Adam Cooper undergoes a transformation.  What term best describes this transformation?
2. Describe the events that follow Adam drawing water from the well.
3. At the end of the dinner scene, Adam asks if can accompany his father.  Where is Moses going and why doesn’t he let Adam come with him?
4. Describe the way in which the reader receives information about what went on at the Committee meeting.
5. At the opening of Chapter 3, Levi is upset about a dream.  Describe the dream and explain its significance in relation to the events that immediately follow his description.
6. Describe Moses’ reaction to Adam’s signing of the muster book.  How does his reaction differ from Sarah’s?
7. How does Adam’s view of his father change after Moses’ death?
8. Describe the significance of Adam smoking the pipe with Solomon Chandler.
9. How do Adam’s actions in the first battle differ from his actions in the second battle?
10.   Describe Adam’s homecoming after the battles. 
11.   How have Adam’s relationships changed with Sarah?  Ruth?  Levi?
12.   Is it clear at the end of the novel that Adam has truly become a man? Explain.

 

 

Extra Credit: 

1.  What is another term for the transformation that Adams undergoes?

 

 

 

April Morning Exam                                                                                   Ms. Baione

Part III                                                                                    English 11R Humanities

 

Directions:  Choose one of the following quotes.  Write a short essay (about 250 words) that describes the way in which this quote is significant to the meaning (or a theme) of the novel. 

Be sure to include:

·        An interpretation of the quote.

·        What is happening when this quote appears in the novel.

·        How the quote fits into the larger context of the book.

·        An explanation of the meaning (or a theme) you are addressing.

·        How this quote relates to the meaning (or a theme) of the novel.

 

Quote #1

p.73

            “Yesterday he was a boy,” father replied, his voice dull and troubled.  “

Tonight he’s not.”

 

 

 

Quote #2

p.169

            “We had won the battle, but there is less joy in winning a battle than the history books tell you.”

 

 

 

Quote #3

p.181 

“This was the same place I had fled from twelve hours or so before, but the count of time had no meaning; and the April morning when I had departed properly belonged in the past so distant and different that it could hardly be evoked.  Even if all the scars were healed, nothing would ever be the same again.”

 

 

 

Quote #4

p.153

            “It had appeared to me, from all I had ever read or heard about war, that a battle was fought quickly and then put away to rest and wait for inclusion in the history books…”