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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 does True Son ruin the ambush?

2. What did the doctor do to True Son's feet?

3. What does Mr. Butler accuse True Son of lying about?

4. How does Thitpan plan to take over a river boat?

5. Harry thinks it is too bad that True Son wasn't brought up to value what?

Short Essay Questions

1. When True Son is offered liquor, he compares this to what?

2. How does True Son find Half Arrow?

3. Why does Half Arrow say that True Son has been living with the whites for too long?

4. What do True Son and Half Arrow pass the second night in the boat? What does True Son say about it?

5. What does the doctor say is wrong with True Son?

6. Bejance tells True Son "They have the harness on you Injun boy." What does he mean by this?

7. What news is brought to Harry Butler? Who is the messenger?

8. What is Mr. Butler's reaction when he finds True Son going to visit Corn Blade?

9. Describe True Son's feelings about Del's departure.

10. What does True Son think and feel about his situation when he wakes up on the mountain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

True Son often refers to things in nature as family members. Name three instances of this. What does this make the reader think and feel about True Son?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss True Son's character. What his character dynamic or static? Why?

Essay Topic 3

After the failed ambush, what do the Indians do to True Son's face? What does it symbolize, and what following events does it alert True Son to? What does Cuyloga do to his own face in response, and why?

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