Black Beauty Novel Review

"But still, you must do your best wherever you are, and keep up your good name."

• Polly

• Duchess( Black Beauty's Mom)

• Mr.Thoroughgood

• Mrs. Gordon

"Look here, missus, I've got a wife and dear children at home. Now you get into that cab. I'll take you for free. I'd be ashamed of myself to take any money from you."

• The Squire

• Joe Green

• Jerry Barker

• Mr. Filcher

"As sure as I'm alive, there's that little patch of white hair John used to call 'Beauty's three penny bit.' It must be Beauty! Do you Know me?"

• Joe Green

• John Manly

• Ginger

• Captain

"Ah, I did once, but it is no use. Men are stronger, and if they are mean and without feeling, there is nothing we can do. I hate to suffer another day."

• Merrylegs

• Black Beauty

• Mr. Thoroughgood

• Ginger

Black Beauty is told from the point of view of

• Merrylegs

• Black Beauty

• John Manly

• Jerry Barker

How does Black Beauty become ill after fetching the doctor for Mrs. Gordon?

• Little Joe Green does not care for him properly

• He inhales too much smoke in the stable fire

• He runs too fast and collapses at his destination

• He breaks his knees due to a loose shoe

Beauty is very happy at Squire Gordon's. Why does he have to leave?

• The children outgrow him, so he is sold to another family

• The family doesn't need him to work anymore

• Beauty is not gentle enough for the children to ride him.

• The squire's wife becomes ill and the family needs to move to another place.

Beauty's first encounter with animal cruelty is...

• Being overworked on the farm with his mother

• being left in a dirty stall and developing thrush

• being forced to wear a bearing rein at the Lady and Lord's Home

• Working as a cab horse and never getting a day off

How does Reuben Smith die?

• He drives Beauty too fast with a loose shoe. He dies by falling from the horse

• He does not make it out of the stable fire in time

• He develops bronchitis from waiting in the rain for his customer

• He eats poorly cooked meat and develops food poisoning

The first and the last settings of the novel are SIMILAR because....

• They are both cab companies in the city

• they are both happy place with room for Beauty to roam and be healthy

• They are both filled with people who don't care about animals

• Black Beauty makes it back home to the same field with his mother.