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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Lipsha thinks his love medicine didn't work because:
(a) It was only a deception.
(b) Nector was destined to be with Lulu.
(c) He couldn't get the blessing of the priest.
(d) Nector refused to eat the turkey heart.

3. Nector's death could be described as:
(a) Painless and uneventful.
(b) Sudden and unresisted.
(c) Peaceful and private.
(d) Terrifying and prolonged.

4. Lulu learns of Nector's death when:
(a) Nector chokes on the turkey heart.
(b) Lyman tells her about it.
(c) Lipsha visits her.
(d) Marie visits her.

5. When Lulu sees Nector at the Senior Citizens Center she says he is more like himself than ever before because:
(a) Now he concentrates only on his own desires.
(b) He doesn't recognize those he loves.
(c) He still wants Lulu.
(d) He ignores Lulu.

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

7. Lipsha takes the turkey hearts to:
(a) The mission to be blessed.
(b) Grandma Kashpaw to confess his deception.
(c) Old Lady Pillager in exchange for advice.
(d) Lulu Lamartine.

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

9. Why does Gordie believe he has brought out June's ghost?
(a) He reminisced about her at Eli's house.
(b) He spoke her name aloud.
(c) He went through her possessions.
(d) He prayed for her return.

10. The evidence Albertine finds in the trailer--beer cans and cigarette stubs--suggests:
(a) Someone has been hiding in one of the trucks.
(b) Dot has been living in the trailer.
(c) Gerry has been hiding in the trailer.
(d) Dot and Albertine will no longer be working in the trailer.

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

12. While King and Lynette watch the newscast about Gerry's escape, Lipsha:
(a) Makes himself a bowl of cereal.
(b) Tries to console Howard.
(c) Tries to steal the firebird.
(d) Hears Gerry coming in through the kitchen window.

13. The darkness of the night "lifting" coincides with Sister Mary's discovery that:
(a) Gordie was a drunk who needed her help.
(b) Gordie had run away and was no longer a threat.
(c) Gordie had not killed his wife, but a deer.
(d) She had not awakened any of the nuns with her clarinet.

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

15. Marie admits that Lipsha was always her favorite after:
(a) He tells her that Nector's love is what keeps his ghost by her side.
(b) Nector chokes to death.
(c) He tells her he has acquired the goose hearts.
(d) Zelda tells Lipsha to go away at the funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. Albertine spends a great deal of time in the bathroom because:

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

3. A symbol of Dot's overwhelming love might be:

4. Albertine thinks baby Shawn will be as heavy as any truck load because:

5. For what is Lipsha tired of thanking his grandmother?

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