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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 do Calliope, Nina, and Yiffer hide from on the morning after Sam and Calliope's dinner date?

2. What is Lonnie doing while he listens to Calliope and Sam above him?

3. Who was Sam's first mentor?

4. What does Coyote give Sam at Calliope's apartment?

5. What does Sam decide to do when he can't find the Spirit World in 1967?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Sam able to ask Aaron for so high a price to buy him out of his shares of the partnership?

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

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

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

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

6. What is Billy's plan for saving Sam after the incident with Enos?

7. Why is Adeline uncomfortable with Pokey's speaking of his medicine dream?

8. What event causes Sam to flee from Crow Country to Santa Barbara?

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

10. Why does Pokey worry that Sam may have seen Old Man Coyote in his dream at the fasting place?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What is Coyote's role in Sam's life? How is Sam like Coyote?

Essay Topic 3

Identify and explain the climax of the novel. Why is this scene the climax of the novel? What lead up to it?

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