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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Marie's reasons for not wanting another child around?
(a) She is ashamed of what the neighbors will think.
(b) She has plans to leave with her husband.
(c) She has always hated her sister and her family.
(d) She has too many children and a drunk of a husband.

2. How are Marie and Rushes Bear "related" by the end of the story?
(a) The discover that Marie and Nector are cousins.
(b) They are both lonely, having survived unsuccessful marriages, and care for each other.
(c) They are both willing to overlook Fleur Pillager's interference in their marriages.
(d) Marie discovers that Rushes Bear was her mother all along.

3. Gordie drives to town in order to:
(a) Avoid getting in another fight with June.
(b) Trade a deer for liquor.
(c) Tell people he has seen June.
(d) Get more bottles of liquor.

4. After Gordie kills the deer with the crow bar:
(a) He imagines the deer is accusing him of cowardice.
(b) He imagines he has killed June.
(c) He imagines he has confessed it to the priest.
(d) He imagines she is blaming him for June's death.

5. Though Leopolda is dying, Marie's real reason for visiting her is:
(a) To show Leopolda how far she has come up in the world.
(b) To get help finding Nector.
(c) To offer her daughter Zelda up to the convent.
(d) To beg Leopolda's forgiveness for her behavior at the convent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marie struggles with Zelda's growing up because:

2. Why does Gordie believe he has brought out June's ghost?

3. Sister Mary could be described as:

4. Rushes Bear admits she has come to stay with Marie because:

5. To drown out the sight and sound of June's ghost, what does Gordie do?

(see the answer key)

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