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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 Delores doing at the beginning of Chapter 10?

2. What hits and kills Tonica?

3. When did Nowatima die?

4. How old was Dovie when she told Delores to run from the boarding school?

5. In Chapter 11, how many warriors have been walking most of the night with Anoleta?

Short Essay Questions

1. What can Koi Chitto use an alligator for?

2. Why does Delores decide that McAlester has to be buried in Mississippi?

3. In Chapter 7, what does Susan say to the crowd in front of her house?

4. In Chapter 9, what conversation do Carl Tonica and Hector D'Amato have regarding Auda?

5. What does Bienville warn Anoleta about Red Shoes?

6. Why does Carl Tonica call the FBI in Chapter 9?

7. In Chapter 12, where does Auda dream that she goes, and what happens there?

8. In Chapter 11, how does Red Shoes know that he will die?

9. What does Gore know about Delores and Dovie Love?

10. At the beginning of Chapter 9, what does a woman say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The setting or settings in a book are where the action takes place. Do the settings in the book serve as a backdrop to characters or does they almost take on the role of a character? How do the settings evoke feelings or set the tone in the book?

Essay Topic 2

How do Shakbatina and other characters use color? What do various colors symbolize?

Essay Topic 3

Personification is a type of figurative language that assigns human characteristics to inanimate objects. How does the author use personification in the book? How does the use of personification assist readers in imagining scenes and objects?

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