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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 admits to sleeping with a nurse?

2. What does Michael awaken to find killing farm geese?

3. What did Northridge admit he learned about politicians?

4. What does Dalva learn about Paul's ranch?

5. Why are months missing from Northridge's journal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Michael realize about his life?

2. What does Dalva learn about Paul's ranch?

3. How does Dalva find herself at peace over the unfairness of the world?

4. Discuss the meeting between Dalva and her son's adoptive mother.

5. Discuss the dinner between Dalva, Ruth, Paul, and Fred.

6. Discuss Michael's speech at the rotary club.

7. Discuss the tribe Northridge befriends during the war.

8. Why does Northridge ride to locate the wife of White Tree?

9. How does Michael seduce Karen?

10. How does Dalva learn who her son is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss setting. What is the role/importance of setting and how is it displayed?

Essay Topic 2

Flashbacks are used in the novel. Discuss the role of flashbacks and the positive and negative influence they have.

Essay Topic 3

The history of the Sioux Indians is discussed in the novel. What type of history does the novel give about the Indians and what are the effects of this?

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