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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 name does Harlan call Sam after he passes out in the sweat lodge?

2. What is the bad omen Pokey sees while speaking with Adeline in Chapter 2?

3. How does Sam feel from the moment he gets to Santa Barbara?

4. Who was Sam's first mentor?

5. What threat does Lonnie make against Calliope with on the night Sam comes to Calliope's apartment for dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mr. Cable so resistant to accepting the multi-million dollar policy Sam wants to write for him?

2. Why is Calliope wondering about the past lives of lizards while she waits for Sam to pick her up from work?

3. Why does Coyote steal a card from Sam's Rolodex?

4. Why is Aaron angry at Sam concerning Sam's meeting with Cable and Cochran?

5. Why does Spagnola believe Sam was involved in the Indian's attack on Cable?

6. Why does Old Man Coyote send Pokey back to his body?

7. Why does Adeline say she is getting bad medicine from being Crow in the chapter titled, "Five Faces of Coyote Blue?"

8. Why is Sam so disconcerted by Aaron's story about the Indian attacking Cable and Cochran's threatening a lawsuit?

9. Why does Sam have a hard time following Calliope's conversation?

10. Why does Aaron offer Sam a partnership in his agency?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the theme of chaos and order demonstrated in Coyote Blue? In what direction does Coyote seem to be taking Sam's life, toward chaos or toward order?

Essay Topic 2

What does the title Coyote Blue mean? How does Moore explain the title within the book? Why did he choose this particular title?

Essay Topic 3

What is M.F.'s role in the novel? What does the story of his past reveal about him? Why does he choose to help Sam and Coyote?

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