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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. When was the amoeba discovered?
2. Who is Bonanza Jellybean in the outhouse with in Chapter 33?
3. What flowers coat the ground in the prairie that the girls ride to in Chapter 44?
4. Sissy's father says in Chapter 5 that she couldn't suck her thumbs because she'd need a mouth like a what?
5. Robbins writes in Chapter 34 that a sentence of lead "gives a reader an entirely different sensation from one made of" what?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Sissy come to be arrested in Chapters 11-16?
2. What does Bonanza Jellybean invite Sissy to crash with the cowgirls in Part Three? What takes place?
3. What happens at the party that Sissy attends in Chapter 11?
4. How does Julian finally reach Sissy in Chapter 28? What does he tell her?
5. Why does Sissy stay with Julian at his apartment in Chapter 26? Why does she leave?
6. How does the Countess react to the meeting of Sissy and Julian in Part Two? What does he tell Julian about Sissy?
7. How much time has elapsed between Parts One and Two of the novel? What has taken place in the interim?
8. What about Sissy does Julian find embarrassing? What in their relationship makes up for this?
9. What is the state of the film crew in Part Three as Sissy arrives at the ranch? Why?
10. From where are gunshots heard on the ranch in Part Three? What has taken place?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the symbolic and thematic meaning behind Sissy's thumbs in the novel. What larger concept does the author use them to represent? How?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the philosophies of the Clock People and the Chink in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. What does he impart regarding Eastern and Western thought?
Essay Topic 3
Describe how the author uses the motif of Native American culture, religion, and mythology to illustrate his viewpoints on religion in the novel. What is Robbins' message of Native American culture?
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