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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 does Karl eat on the train in the second part of chapter 1?
2. What is the name of the person who rescues Karl?
3. Who is in the bar that Sita enters at the end of chapter 5?
4. From what part of the cow does the cow's diamond come?
5. What city is the setting of the beginning of chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Karl make a note of the change on the table in chapter 6 when he and Wallace Pfef are having drinks?
2. Describe Argus, as pictured in "The Branch."
3. Describe the appearance of the pawn shop and the objects Sita buys there in chapter 5.
4. Why does Adelaide run to the airplane in chapter 1? How does this decision affect the children?
5. Explain the town's reaction to Mary's accident in the ice in chapter 2.
6. Describe Wallace Pfef's vision for the sugar beet, as described in chapter 6?
7. How does the empty jewel box in chapter 1 shape Mary's character?
8. How does Karl act when he meets Jude Miller? Why?
9. Why does Karl run back to the train at the end of "The Branch"?
10. How does Mary react to receiving a postcard from Adelaide in chapter 3?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the differences in the author's writing style between when she is emphasizing setting and when she is emphasizing plot.
Essay Topic 2
Explicate Sita's hallucination in which Karl sinks into the ground. What happens? When does the hallucination begin? How do the other characters react and how would the scene have been changed if Erdrich had chosen a different narrator?
Essay Topic 3
How does the author's use of flashbacks throughout the novel fill in the reader's sense of the characters' history? Choose one character and discuss his or her life prior to the novel, as expressed in flashbacks, and then explain how this method of conveying history is helpful or unhelpful to the reader.
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