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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The incident that convinces Lipsha to make the love medicine is:
(a) When he learns that Nector has been.
(b) When Nector enters his.
(c) When Nector starts.
(d) When he learns that Nector's rare lucid time is spent.

2. Dot's most outstanding characteristic is:
(a) She hates pissants.
(b) She is an escaped convict.
(c) She never gets angry.
(d) She is direct.

3. How does Lyman describe the image of himself and Henry in their last photo?
(a) His own face out in the sun and Henry's pulled back in the shadows.
(b) Henry's face haunting him from inside the closet door.
(c) He and Henry smiling in the sun.
(d) Both boys sitting on the bank of the river.

4. Albertine reminds Henry of:
(a) A girl he met in a village in Viet Nam who blew herself up.
(b) His mother when she was younger.
(c) One of his relatives from the reservation who died in Viet Nam.
(d) The displaced people in Viet Nam traveling with their belongings.

5. When Nector appears to Lulu after his death she discovers:
(a) She can keep him with her by saying his name aloud.
(b) He has loved her more than Marie all along.
(c) There are worlds beyond what she can see.
(d) There is no such thing as death.

6. Lulu uses the term "dreamstuff" to describe:
(a) Unattainable dreams.
(b) False longing or foolishness.
(c) Anything worth hoping for.
(d) Passion and lust.

7. Albertine is in Fargo because:
(a) She is looking for Henry Lamartine.
(b) She is on her way to college.
(c) She wants to see the city.
(d) She is running away from home.

8. Three motifs that appear in the chapter are:
(a) Water, brotherhood, and girls.
(b) Money, water, and blood.
(c) The weather, darkness, and water.
(d) The weather, darkness, and cars.

9. Nector yells his prayers in church because he believes:
(a) He only remembers them if he says them loudly.
(b) God is going deaf and cannot hear him otherwise.
(c) The other people in church need to be reminded of the prayers.
(d) He doesn't mean the prayers unless he yells them.

10. Lulu is interested in Marie because:
(a) She wants to join one of the committees Marie organized.
(b) She wants to snap her fingers and make Marie disappear.
(c) She believes Marie is gossiping about her.
(d) She wants to know what Marie thought during Lulu's affair with Nector.

11. What is Lipsha's love medicine?
(a) Lipsha will feed his grandparents the hearts of mated geese to keep them together.
(b) Lipsha will collect nail clippings and burn them as an offering.
(c) Lipsha will make a necklace of seed pearls that attract metal for his grandfather to wear.
(d) Lipsha will catch two frogs mating and give them to his grandparents.

12. Lulu enters her burning house because:
(a) She wants to save her belongings.
(b) Lyman is napping inside it.
(c) She wants to die inside it.
(d) Lyman is trying to put out the fire.

13. As a child Lulu discovered:
(a) A hiding place to escape the government school.
(b) The body of a dead man in the woods.
(c) She was in love with Nector Kashpaw.
(d) Dead animals under the leaves in the woods.

14. Sister Mary could be described as:
(a) Kind, sentimental, and impressionable.
(b) Efficient, bossy, and overbearing.
(c) Kind, efficient, and capable.
(d) Rebellious, homesick, and frustrated.

15. Gerry's most unusual feature is:
(a) His large frame.
(b) His delicate and graceful movements.
(c) His sobriety.
(d) His long hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lulu learns of Nector's death when:

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

3. Gerry believes he cannot be held by any prison because:

4. The fact that Lyman cannot keep the positions of the North and South Vietnamese soldiers straight implies:

5. Lyman Lamartine considers himself lucky because:

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