All Creatures Great and Small Quizzes

1 All Creatures Great and Small is best characterized as which category of literature

Fantasy

Memoir and/or novel

Science Fiction

Novel and/or autobiography
2 How is Siegfried characterized?

A gambler and a thief, he is not well respected

A good vet, a ladies man, and a gambler, who often contradicts himself

A poor vet, but a really interesting man

A new vet, who doesn't show much interest in anything besides animals
3 Why does Siegfried hire Miss Harbottle?

He doesn't want to answer the door or the phone

To help put the business finances in order

None of these are correct

He wants to have a woman around to flirt with
4 Who is old Boardman?

Tristan's nickname

Siegfried's first assistant

The caretaker of Siegfried's property

A frequent customer who never pays
5 Which of the following stories from the novel exemplify the theme of adversity?

The attention Herriot receives at Mrs Pumphrey's party

Siegfried's lost opportunity to be the vet for the horse races

Tristan failed his exams

The old man's whose dog has to be put to sleep
6 Why does Herriot decide to join the Music Society?

He is hoping to meet women

He is looking for more culture in his life

Siegfried told him he needed to get out of the house more

He wants to see more of Helen Alderson
7 What is the reason behind Siegfried and Tristan's unusual names

They came to England from Germany

Their father was a fan of Wagner, the German composer

Their ancestors are German, but their family has lived in England for many generations

They changed their names as adults to be more unique
8 Who is Tricki Woo?

Siegfried's favorite dog

A difficult client

Herriot's nephew

Mrs Pumphrey's dog
9 In the opening scene of the book, what is Herriot doing?

Surgery on a cow

Calving

Lambing

Driving to a midnight farm call
10 The landscape of the Yorkshire Dales is representative of which of these literary elements?

Imagery

Hardship Adversity

Theme of the natural world

All of these
11 What is "worm in the tail"?

The alternative name for tapeworm

The local nickname for an intestinal disease of dogs

A mythical disease which requires the farmer to remove a cow's tail

A mythical disease that the farmers believe kill many sheep
12 Why do Tristan and Siegfried often fight?

Tristan and Siegfried are of different temperaments

Tristan does not follow Siegfried's directions

Siegfried does not like Tristan's laid back attitude and laziness

All of these are correct
13 “An asparagus bed whose fleshy fingers had grown into tall fronds” is an example of which literary element?

Irony

Motif

Simile

Metaphor
14 What is kept in the dispensary?

Medications and chemicals to mix medications

The feeding supplies for the pigs

Veterinary tools

A full bar of liquors
15 Where is Skedale House?

Darrowby

Scotland

Thirsk

London
16 Which of these is an example of the theme of resilience?

A farmer who spends all night with his cow, and still goes to work in the morning

Miss Harbottle's confrontations of Siegfried

Tristan's crashing Siegfried's Rover

The farmers who ask Herriot for a ride to see the Messiah
17 "To the east, a black mountain overhung us, menacing in its naked bulk. Huge, square-cut boulders littered the lower slopes." This quote contains which of these literary devices:

Parallelism

Imagery

Dramatic Irony

Allegory
18 The title of the book is a reference to:

A pun

A poem Herriot wrote

A hymn

None of these are correct
19 Herriot is often frustrated with Siegfried because:

He contradicts himself

He is not very kind to him

He fights too much with Tristan

He takes all the money and doesn't pay him
20 Which client of Herriot's reappears the most throughout the book?

The Sidlows

Phin Clavert

Gobber Newhouse

Mrs Pumphrey
21 Calving is the term used for:

The process used to dress a horse before a race

The birthing of piglets

The birthing of lambs

The birthing of cows
22 Mrs Pumphrey refers to Herriot as

Uncle Herriot

Brother Herriot

Doctor Herriot

Mr Herriot
23 When Herriot is called in the middle of the night to go to a farm, what does he usually do

Ask Tristan to go instead

Go immediately to the farm in his pajamas

Wait until morning

Get dressed and go immediately to the farm
24 Contrast is often used to compare two important differences between two elements within the story. Which of these is an example of contrast?

"“A big, barking, gaping-mouthed sow has always been able to make me move very smartly.”

"I kept coming back to the daughters; to the contempt in Julia Tavener’s eyes when she looked at her father and the shining tenderness in Jennie Alton’s.”

“Mrs. Pumphrey, in the high-backed chair by the fire, put down her book with a cry of delight.”

"As I came up through the wilderness which had once been a garden I could see the dogs watching me from where they had jumped on to the old lady’s bed”
25 “The one thing which brought some light into the life of the brave old woman was the transparent devotion of this shaggy bunch whose eyes were never far from her face.” This quotation is a demonstration of which theme:

Human-Animal Connection

Resilience

Human Relationships

The Natural World

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