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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 color dress do Sita and Mary wear on the first day of school?

2. What does Sita buy at the pawn shop?

3. Where do Sita's kidnappers leave her?

4. Who breaks the tree in "The Branch"?

5. What kind of business does Jimmy run?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Chez Sita.

2. In chapter 5, why does Catherine Miller write to Sita? How does Sita respond?

3. In chapter 7, why does Wallace Pfef want to see Mary?

4. How does Sita feel when Pete gives Mary the cow's diamond? Why?

5. Why does Karl make a note of the change on the table in chapter 6 when he and Wallace Pfef are having drinks?

6. How does The Air Seeder work?

7. Why does Martin Miller keep Mary's baby brother?

8. Describe Celestine's appearance, as related in chapter 2.

9. Describe Wallace Pfef's vision for the sugar beet, as described in chapter 6?

10. How does the empty jewel box in chapter 1 shape Mary's character?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain Erdrich's use of dialogue in the scene in which Karl and Wallace Pfef meet.

Essay Topic 2

How does Erdrich use different narrators to create different effects? Choose a scene and describe how its narrator conveys the situation from a particular perspective. Then explain how the reader's perception of the scene would have been different if Erdrich had chosen a different narrator.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Erdrich's sense of plot and narration in the following two scenes: when Mary has her accident in the ice and when Russell Kashpaw lights his menu on fire.

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