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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lulu gets restitution for her land because:
(a) She manipulates Nector into helping her.
(b) She demands money in exchange for her home.
(c) She gains the sympathy of the tribal council.
(d) She threatens to reveal the fathers of her children.

2. What final image connects Gordie to June's death?
(a) Gordie's remorse is ironic because he was abusive to June.
(b) Gordie runs into the woods where he and June used to play as kids.
(c) He ends up in the open fields crying, and she died in an open field.
(d) He ends up crying and she died happily.

3. While Albertine is changing in the bathroom, Henry:
(a) Has a flashback to Viet Nam.
(b) Tells her stories through the door.
(c) Gets sick and passes out.
(d) Feels a desperate need to get home and leaves.

4. The trait that will keep Lipsha out of the army is:
(a) His irregular heartbeat.
(b) His Kashpaw heritage.
(c) His father's prison record.
(d) His

5. Lyman's final act of homage to his brother Henry in the chapter comes when:
(a) He walks away from the reservation for good.
(b) He destroys the picture of himself and Henry.
(c) He pushes the red convertible into the river.
(d) He goes back to Alaska to find the girl.

6. Gerry and Dot's baby is like its father even before it is born because it is:
(a) Restless.
(b) Hungry.
(c) Big.
(d) Abusive.

7. 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 she is blaming him for June's death.
(d) He imagines he has confessed it to the priest.

8. Henry doesn't want the red convertible anymore because:
(a) He doesn't beleive in material possessions anymore.
(b) He thinks it represents selfishness.
(c) His youthful, passionate, carefree days are over.
(d) He thinks Lyman deserves it more.

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

10. Lipsha is visiting King and Lynette because:
(a) He wants King to admit they are brothers.
(b) He wants to admit he was never a Kashpaw.
(c) He wants information about Gerry Nanapush.
(d) He wants to claim King's firebird.

11. When Howard allows the police into the apartment, who does he believe they are there to arrest?
(a) Lipsha Morrisey.
(b) Gerry Nanapush.
(c) His mother, Lynette.
(d) His father, King.

12. Albertine and Dot's initial conflict arises because:
(a) Albertine is having Gerry's baby.
(b) Dot thinks Albertine turned Gerry over to the police.
(c) Dot thinks Albertine is flirting with Gerry.
(d) Albertine threw her coffee in Dot's face.

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

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

15. A symbol of Dot's overwhelming love might be:
(a) The pile of bones Gerry left in her yard.
(b) Her grown-out orange hairdo.
(c) Her high, square-shaped belly.
(d) Her diligent production of milk for the baby.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what way is Lipsha "the only one that's ignorant?"

3. At the hotel, Henry and Albertine sign the register as:

4. Henry and Albertine need each other because:

5. Nector's death could be described as:

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