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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 scares Calliope as she tries to sleep in her car?

2. What does Pokey say Coyote will need to retrieve someone from the Underworld?

3. In the chapter titled "Nevermore," what is sitting in the corner of Sam's office when he enters?

4. Who tells Pokey to warn Coyote that there is death where he goes?

5. What is the explanation offered by the person who tells Sam about the polar bear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Coyote take Sam's Mercedes?

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Coyote refer to the ATM machine as a cheating machine?

7. 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?

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

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

10. Why does Coyote leave as Sam and Pokey prepare to send Sam to the Underworld?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How is the theme of trust and hope portrayed in Coyote Blue? How does trust and hope impact Sam and Calliope's relationship? How do they affect Pokey and Coyote's relationship?

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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