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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. How old is Saul at the start of Chapter 17?

2. Who guided Saul’s family’s ten-day journey to Gods Lake?

3. What do students at St. Jerome’s call Saul because he can read English?

4. What does Saul use to practice on during the summer months?

5. What is the name of the game the white locals played in which they hang out of their car windows with a broomstick and strike Indians?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Saul mean by the spectre that lived in all of the adults, particularly his mother?

2. Why does Naomi say she and Saul must leave Gods Lake and where will they go?

3. Describe Benjamin’s final day.

4. As Saul learns to skate he feels he can perform any move he envisions. How does he relate this to something his grandmother had taught him about the universe?

5. What are the nighttime invasions described in Chapter 21?

6. What is Broom-a-Buck described in Chapter 25?

7. Describe Naomi’s final moments.

8. What praise does Father Leboutilier give to Saul during and after his first game in The White River arena in Chapter 20?

9. What happens when Saul’s father and uncles begin bringing home liquor in Chapter 3?

10. Though Father Quinney and Sister Ignacia do not want Saul to play hockey at first, Father Quinney later changes his mind. Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the conflict between the traditional Native ways and the ways of the white man throughout Indian Head.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about life at St. Jerome’s. Analyze the images, words, phrases and other descriptive elements used to describe what life is like there.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and Contrast Saul’s experience as a lumberjack with his hockey experience.

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