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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. As the chapter titled, "Like Flies" begins, what does Calliope hear?

2. What does Coyote ask M.F. to stop and buy while riding in the hotel limo?

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

4. What does Sam tell Coyote will happen if the police run a background check on Sam?

5. When Sam returns to Coyote after seeing Pokey in the clinic, what does he tell Coyote he needs?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Coyote take Sam's Mercedes?

2. Why was Calliope so afraid that Sam would not come with her to get Grubb?

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

4. Why does Sam say he left his home for nothing?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. Why is a clerk in a store shocked when M.F. takes off his sunglasses, and what does this reveal about M.F.?

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss characters as shape-shifters in Coyote Blue. Which characters can literally shift? Which characters shift metaphorically?

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