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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the Indian reserve that the women live on?
2. Which of the following best describes Veronique's daughter?
3. What does Pelajia say there will be more of as a result of better roads on the reserve?
4. Where does Pelajia tell her sister that she wants to go?
5. Who does Annie give the letter to read from her daughter's package?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the main subject of conversation between the women in Act 1, Scene 1?
2. What happens when the women get frustrated after they aren't successful at the bingo game?
3. What is the conversation between Emily and Annie while Annie is driving the van to Toronto?
4. As Pelajia is on her roof in the final scene of the play, she again imagines a better life on the reserve. What role does she say she wish she had and how does she say life would be better because of it?
5. What are Veronique's complaints about life on the reservation?
6. What happened to Emily's friend from the biker gang? What does Emily resolve not to do because of it?
7. Describe the opening scene of the play.
8. What does Pelajia comment to her sister, Philomena, about bingo and the old ways?
9. What is happening between Emily and Zhaboonigan in Act 2, Scene 8? What kind of relationship do these two characters seem to emulate?
10. What does Zhaboonigan try to do as Marie-Adele is being led away with Nanabush? Why do you think she tries to do this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Nanabush is present throughout the play, but only certain characters can see him. Discuss the relationship between Nanabush and the women who can see him. Who acknowledges Nanabush? For what reason? Describe the scenes between these women and Nanabush. What is the purpose of their contact? How does it effect the play? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
This play seems to center around the game of bingo. Describe the role of bingo in this play. What is the importance of the game of bingo? Why are the characters so obsessed with winning the big prize in bingo? What does bingo mean for the women in the play? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
How does the experience at the world's largest bingo game change the women characters in the play? Do they move on from bingo? Does the place of bingo change in their lives? In what other ways do these women change? How does the death of Marie-Adele affect them? Use examples from the play to support your answer.
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