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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 did Lily used to call the blankets she kept in her jeep?

2. In Chapter 18, what does Jamie tell Daunis about the group of teenagers that took bad meth?

3. Why is Lily ineligible for application to be enrolled in the tribe?

4. In Chapter 20, who tells Daunis she has to get over TJ?

5. What does Daunis call hockey girlfriends?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Lily and Daunis understand each other so well?

2. Why does Teddie not want Daunis to come to the Blanket Party with her?

3. Why does Daunis end up spending so much time with Jamie in Part I?

4. Why does Granny June give Daunis Lily's Jeep?

5. What surprises Daunis about Levi's reaction to the news that she and Jamie are dating?

6. In Part II, why is Daunis so mad at Jamie at first?

7. What reputation does the Fontaine family have in the community?

8. Why does Daunis decide to stay home to attend college for a while rather than go away?

9. How does Daunis realize she misjudged her Uncle David in Part II?

10. What theory does the FBI have about the compound in the really dangerous meth it has found months earlier?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How - and why - does Boulley establish and maintain a sexual tension between Jamie and Daunis throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Daunis really feel about having decided to attend college closer to home, and how do these feelings compare to how she tells those closest to her she feels about this decision? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What role models of strong female native characters does Boulley develop throughout this novel, and how do these characters grow, change and evolve over the course of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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