Plot
Vocab
Lessons
Figurative Language
Misc.
100

In the exposition, where is Joey?

England

France

Germany

England

100

Albert's father thought training Joey WAS BORING. What word means boring?

Peremptory

tedious

acute

tedious

100

Being sold to Cap. Nicholls was actually a positive event because....

Joey saved his life

Joey got to see France

Dad stopped drinking and became a good man

Joey got to meet Corporal Sam Perkins

Dad stopped drinking

100

The oak tree whispered in the wind that stormy night

personification

100

When the reader knows Joey is the hurt horse, but Albert is unaware

dramatic irony

200

What happens in the rising action?

Joey meets Albert

Joey meets Emily

Joey meets David

meets Emily

200

The captain stopped the battle before it even started. 

What word means before it even started?

Acute

Peremptory

expeditionary

peremptory

200

What lesson did Joey NOT learn?

How to get along with different personalities

how to pull carts containing very heavy loads

howto stay in control during battle situations

how to deliver mail to various villages 

How to deliver mail

200

Joey ran fast as a freight train

simile 

200

With this point of view, the reader can enter the minds of more than one character

omniscient

300

What happens in the climax?

Joey is reunited with Albert

Joey is reunited with Zoey

Reunited with Albert

300

Joey was nervous when he heard gunfire

What word means nervous?

resilience

venture

trepidation

trepidation

300

What lesson did the allies learn early on in the war?

Cavalries cannot succeed against machine guns

Soldiers get quite homesick and need short breaks

allies were always much more respectful that the other side

The war would be won very quickly because the allies were better equipped

cavalries were not successful against machine guns

300

Topthorne ate two tasty tablespoons of sugar

alliteration

300

Albert is represented by his whistle

symbol

400

What happens in the falling action?

Joey is sold to the butcher

Joey is sold to Emilie's grandfather

Joey is sold to Capt. Nicholls

sold to grandfather

400

Joey traveled to France with the army

what word means traveled ?

Peremptory

expeditionary 


expeditionary


400

What lesson did Albert end by the end of the novel?

It pays to listen to your parents

everything happens for a reason

keeping secrets is okay

choose your friends wisely 

everything happens for a reason

400

Emilie is a saint

metaphor

400

Capt Nicholls does not go through an emotional change

minor character

500

What happens first?

Joey pulls the ammo cart

Emilie becomes sick with pneumonia

Joey becomes sick with tetanus 

Herr Haupman trains Joey

Herr Haupman trains Joey

500

War horses must be able to recover quickly

what word means recover quickly?

Resilience

Peremptory

venture


resilience

500

Why did Mrs. Williams pick this book to read?

Because it teaches that stories are what lives on forever. Who will tell your story and what kind of story will they tell?

500

Albert's father said England's lion is just sleeping, not dead

idiom

500

Grandfather said Emilie was not at all interested in horses

verbal irony