Monkey test

W.W. JACOBS

You will do 6 vocabulary, 8 short answers, and 2 short essays.

Vocab slides will change every 2 minutes. Short answer slides will change every 4

minutes. The short essay slides will pop up every

10 minutes. Write your answer to the question and back it up for each short essay.

THINK! No blank answers! THINK!

Answer briefly but thoroughly and accurately. Keep your answers

around a sentence or two.

Where did the paw originally come from and what curse was

placed upon it? What was this curse supposed

to teach mankind?

Who brought the monkey’s paw into the world of the old

couple and their son?

At one point, Herbert alone looks into the fire and sees faces in the dancing flames. Jacobs uses the

phrase, “so horrible and so simian” in the description of this. What

ordinary words could he have used instead, and how does the

connotation of the words he did use add an element of eeriness to what

is being described?

How did young Herbert die?

Herbert’s mother awoke in the night with a wonderful

idea. What was this idea?

Why did Herbert’s father not want to open the door when he and his wife heard knocks

in the middle of the night? In fact, he was so adamant that his wife not open the door that he screamed, “Don’t let IT in!” Why?

Why “it”?

How was Herbert’s death foreshadowed?

Keep your answers to around a paragraph or two. MOST questions have more than one part. BE SURE

TO ANSWER ALL PARTS OF THE QUESTION.