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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. When Sam arrives at the hotel in Las Vegas, to whom does he give his car keys?

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

3. What language does Pokey speak as the doctors are working on him?

4. What is the name of Sam's hotel in Las Vegas?

5. What is Sam doing while Coyote drives them back to Crow Country?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the significance of the black limo Sam sees pulling away from the truck stop?

3. What reason does Coyote give Sam for not wanting to go to the Underworld?

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

5. Why does Pokey tell Sam that Coyote can retrieve people from the Underworld?

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

7. Why does Anubis refuse to return Calliope's soul to her body?

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

9. What is the memory of sneaking in to see Custer's grave meant to point out to Sam?

10. Why is Jake compelled to assist M.F. when M.F. calls him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

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