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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. Who helps Sita and Celestine at the butcher shop?
2. What is the name of the mother of Karl and Mary?
3. What color dress do Sita and Mary wear on the first day of school?
4. Who becomes Mary's best friend in chapter 2?
5. What body part pains Karl the most in the beginning of chapter 3?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Mary give Sita the sewing machine in chapter 7?
2. Describe the group of men who gather in the butcher shop in chapter 4.
3. Describe Chez Sita.
4. How does Karl act when he meets Jude Miller? 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. Why does Adelaide run to the airplane in chapter 1? How does this decision affect the children?
7. How does The Air Seeder work?
8. Describe Wallace Pfef's vision for the sugar beet, as described in chapter 6?
9. Describe Sita's experience in Minneapolis in chapter 5.
10. How does Sita feel when Pete gives Mary the cow's diamond? Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of failed romance throughout the novel and how it affects the various characters' lives, particularly Mary's life.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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