2. How is the dog made the central figure? 3. What is the climax of the story? 4. Give the steps in the presentation of the dog’s character. 5. Tell how we are made to sympathize with the dog. 6. What suggestive effect is gained at the end of the story? 7. Write a story in which you awaken sympathy for some dumb animal by suggesting that it has almost human emotions. SONNY’S SCHOOLIN’ 1. What is the advantage of the monologue form? 2. How is conversation indicated? 3. Point out the separate incidents that make up the story. 4. What advantage is gained by the use of dialect? 5. Point out elements of goodness in Sonny. 6. What is the character of the father? How is it presented? 7. Tell why Miss Phoebe Kellog’s school was superior to all the others. 8. Show in what way the author has produced humorous effects. 9. Write an original story in which you tell what happened to Sonny when he came to your school. HER FIRST HORSE SHOW 1. Why does the author introduce us to his characters in the midst of the horse show? 2. How does the author, in the beginning of the story, make the situation entirely clear? 3. What speeches and actions in the early part of the story serve to make the action in the latter part of the story seem natural? 4. How is the girl’s daring act emphasized? 5. In what ways does the author make it seem probable that the girl could gain opportunity to ride the high-spirited horse at the horse show? 6. Show in what ways the conclusion is particularly effective. 7. Write an original story concerning a school athletic meet or contest in which one of the students, by unexpected skill and courage, wins the day. MY HUSBAND’S BOOK 1. What is the character of the husband (a) as seen by himself? (b) as seen by the wife? (c) as seen by the reader? 2. What is the character of the wife? 3. What produces the humor of the story? 4. What is the advantage of having the wife so slow to see her husband’s real weakness? 5. What is the effect of the last sentence? 6. At what is the satire directed? 7. Write an original story in which you satirize, in a kindly manner, some common failing in high school boys or girls. WAR 1. How are we made to sympathize with the young man? 2. What is the effect of the detailed description? 3. How is the emotion of the story presented? 4. How does the author make the story increase in emphasis? 5. Why is the incident of the apples introduced? 6. Why is “the man with the ginger beard” brought into the story? 7. What impression does the story leave upon the reader?