All Creatures Great and Small Quizzes

All Creatures Great and Small Quiz 1

1 All Creatures Great and Small is best characterized as which category of literature
Novel and/or autobiography

Science Fiction

Fantasy

Memoir and/or novel
2 How is Siegfried characterized?
A poor vet, but a really interesting man

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

A gambler and a thief, he is not well respected

A new vet, who doesn't show much interest in anything besides animals
3 Why does Siegfried hire Miss Harbottle?
None of these are correct

To help put the business finances in order

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

He wants to have a woman around to flirt with
4 Who is old Boardman?
The caretaker of Siegfried's property

A frequent customer who never pays

Siegfried's first assistant

Tristan's nickname
5 Which of the following stories from the novel exemplify the theme of adversity?
The old man's whose dog has to be put to sleep

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

Tristan failed his exams

The attention Herriot receives at Mrs Pumphrey's party
6 Why does Herriot decide to join the Music Society?
He is hoping to meet women

He wants to see more of Helen Alderson

He is looking for more culture in his life

Siegfried told him he needed to get out of the house more
7 What is the reason behind Siegfried and Tristan's unusual names
Their ancestors are German, but their family has lived in England for many generations

They came to England from Germany

Their father was a fan of Wagner, the German composer

They changed their names as adults to be more unique
8 Who is Tricki Woo?
Mrs Pumphrey's dog

Herriot's nephew

A difficult client

Siegfried's favorite dog
9 In the opening scene of the book, what is Herriot doing?
Calving

Lambing

Driving to a midnight farm call

Surgery on a cow
10 The landscape of the Yorkshire Dales is representative of which of these literary elements?
Imagery

Theme of the natural world

Hardship Adversity

All of these
11 What is "worm in the tail"?
A mythical disease which requires the farmer to remove a cow's tail

A mythical disease that the farmers believe kill many sheep

The local nickname for an intestinal disease of dogs

The alternative name for tapeworm
12 Why do Tristan and Siegfried often fight?
Siegfried does not like Tristan's laid back attitude and laziness

Tristan does not follow Siegfried's directions

Tristan and Siegfried are of different temperaments

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

Motif

Simile

Irony
14 What is kept in the dispensary?
Veterinary tools

A full bar of liquors

Medications and chemicals to mix medications

The feeding supplies for the pigs
15 Where is Skedale House?
Thirsk

London

Darrowby

Scotland
16 Which of these is an example of the theme of resilience?
The farmers who ask Herriot for a ride to see the Messiah

Tristan's crashing Siegfried's Rover

Miss Harbottle's confrontations of Siegfried

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

Allegory

Parallelism

Imagery
18 The title of the book is a reference to:
A poem Herriot wrote

None of these are correct

A pun

A hymn
19 Herriot is often frustrated with Siegfried because:
He is not very kind to him

He contradicts himself

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?
Mrs Pumphrey

The Sidlows

Gobber Newhouse

Phin Clavert
21 Calving is the term used for:
The birthing of cows

The birthing of piglets

The process used to dress a horse before a race

The birthing of lambs
22 Mrs Pumphrey refers to Herriot as
Doctor Herriot

Mr Herriot

Brother Herriot

Uncle Herriot
23 When Herriot is called in the middle of the night to go to a farm, what does he usually do
Go immediately to the farm in his pajamas

Get dressed and go immediately to the farm

Ask Tristan to go instead

Wait until morning
24 Contrast is often used to compare two important differences between two elements within the story. Which of these is an example of contrast?
"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”

"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.”

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

The Natural World

Human Relationships

Resilience

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All Creatures Great and Small

by James Herriot

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