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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 does Cowney tell Essie he has heard rumors about disappearing from the inn?

2. What does Cowney think Essie smells like in Chapter Four?

3. Where does Cowney read of brutalities occurring in the newspaper in Chapter Three?

4. What does Bud do during the wildfires that disgusts Cowney?

5. What does Cowney tell Essie everyone tells him about himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Essie tell Cowney at dinner at the inn the first night that he is wary about?

2. What does Lishie tell Cowney about his father's letters home from the war?

3. What kind of greeting do Cowney and Essie get when they first arrive at Grove Park Inn?

4. What does Cowney feel his choices in life would be if he stayed in Cherokee?

5. What does Cowney think of the first dinner he eats at the inn?

6. What does Cowney worry about in relation to his work clothes he is issued his first day at the inn?

7. What does Cowney find buried on the property of Grove Park Inn that he keeps and hides?

8. What is Cowney's first impression of his co-worker, Sol?

9. How does Lishie feel about religion and how does her religious outlook affect Cowney?

10. What does Bud do in the midst of the wildfires that appalls Cowney?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Cowney's experience of poverty? How does Cowney's socioeconomic situation affect his life path and choices throughout the course of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Given their tumultuous, chaotic, and, at times for Cowney, confusing relationship, how do you think Cowney ends up feeling about Bud following Bud's death? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What does Sol's treatment of Cowney reveal about the prejudices and racism some whites perpetrated against Indians during this time frame? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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