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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 Marie offer Lipsha as his inheritance?

2. What does the narrator say Albertine did not escape?

3. Why do Lipsha and Shawnee get stopped at the Canadian border?

4. Why did Albertine leave school to visit the reservation?

5. Whose face does Lyman not see on the slot machine?

Short Essay Questions

1. What catches Albertine's attention when she is watching a documentary?

2. What does Lyman do after gambling away his money?

3. Why does June promise herself that no one will ever hold her again?

4. How is June Morrissey described?

5. Where does Lyman feel he lost his "true face"?

6. What happens when Lipsha admits that he needs love medicine?

7. Why does Lulu go to the post office?

8. Why does Albertine take part in the naming ceremony?

9. What does Lipsha get a tattoo of and why?

10. How does Lipsha feel that Zelda impacts his life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After returning home, Lipsha spends most of his time trying to win over Shawnee. Summarize their relationship and describe how the quest for this relationship hurts and helps Lipsha. How does Lipsha develop throughout the novel because of this relationship?

Essay Topic 2

What does money mean to the people on the reservation? How does money affect Lipsha? How does it affect Lipsha's relationships with people? How does Lipsha use money? What is the author trying to say about money and traditional Native American life?

Essay Topic 3

Dancing is important in "The Bingo Palace". Reflect on four times that dancing is used in the novel. Describe the dance: Who is dancing? Where are they dancing? Why are they dancing? What does dancing represent in this novel and what does it do for the characters who dance?

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