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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 Coyote take off in the story of Coyote and Cottontail?

2. Who does Coyote allow to bet all of his money when she claims to be lucky?

3. What sport did M.F. plan to play in college?

4. Who visits Adeline while she sits contemplating the screech owl that sits on the pole outside her house?

5. What is M.F.'s father's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who takes the gun from Tinker and beats him? How do you know this?

2. What two observations does M.F. make in King's Lake, Nevada when he catches up with Sam and Coyote?

3. How does Sam trick Amstead Houston into giving him the sacred arrow bundle?

4. Why is the story of Coyote and Cottontail included in the novel?

5. Why does Adeline ask the nurse at the clinic if there is room now that a horse, a young man, and an old man have left?

6. Why does Sam attack Coyote when he returns from the Underworld?

7. What is the story told about Coyote and Beaver and what does it reveal about Coyote?

8. How does Sam come to realize he loves Calliope?

9. Why did M.F.'s mother call him asking for help?

10. Why does Coyote take Sam's Mercedes?

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

How does Sam's dream about Lloyd Commerce figure into his life? What does it foretell?

Essay Topic 3

How does Coyote rationalize the tricks he plays? What are his goals? Is he ultimately a good character or a bad character?

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