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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. In which of the following does the novel remark Mitch lived?

2. Lloyd loses a son to which of the following?

3. How many siblings does Cora report having?

4. With which outfit had the Brayfogles worked?

5. To which tribe is Sitting-in-the-Water-Grizzly reported to have belonged?

Short Essay Questions

1. When her father asks what he could have done to help her, what reply does Annabel make?

2. How does Stanley hide his alcohol production?

3. What does Thompson report telling the indigenous people he encounters alongside Gone-to-the-Spirits?

4. What is Marx’s primary observation about flight?

5. What reason does Annabel give for refusing to bathe after the birth of her twin children?

6. What reasons are reported for Lena hunting via rifle rather than trap?

7. How is Sitting-in-the-Water-Grizzly reported to have been killed?

8. How does Hadley describe the feeling of confronting choices at college?

9. What is remarked upon as Wallace’s “one unexpected strictness” (87)?

10. For what does Marian grieve after her first flight to Vancouver?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A lack of formal sectional division in the novel obliges a fairly arbitrary breakdown of the text for purposes of study and discussion. On what grounds might the current divisions be in place? Why and how are they appropriate to the text?

Essay Topic 2

What overall attitude towards vice does the novel display? How does that attitude emerge?

Essay Topic 3

Hadley remarks that “We is safer than I when you’re inside it, but it’s a tippy thing, unreliable, ready at any moment to toss you away and leave you exposed as an I after all” (60). Does the novel substantiate the remark? How or how not?

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