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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 tells Sam people spotted a polar bear at Motion Marine?

2. What happens to the police officer who is trying to chase Calliope when he gets out of his car?

3. What is a woman doing behind Coyote while he's using Sam's cheating machine?

4. What has Grubb done that causes Lonnie to yell at Cheryl in the chapter titled, "Wheels, Deals and the Persistence of Visions?"

5. For how many days did M.F.'s mother tell him his father hadn't been home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Coyote ask Sam what he's doing when he yells at the raven sitting in the corner of his office?

3. Why does Calliope say she did not call Sam when she discovered that Lonnie had taken Grubb?

4. 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?

5. Why is Calliope so frightened by Cheryl's comment that they will put money on black for Calliope?

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

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

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

9. Why isn't Coyote able to win much at the private gambling table M.F. takes him to?

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

What role does religion play in Coyote Blue? Which religions are mentioned and for which characters are they mentioned? Which characters disdain religion and which characters embrace it?

Essay Topic 2

What does Sam consider to be his normal life? What does he mean when he says he doesn't want what's real anymore, he wants what is real?

Essay Topic 3

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

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