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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Henry and Albertine need each other because:
(a) They are both running away and lost.
(b) They don't have enough money to survive on their own.
(c) They don't get along with anyone else.
(d) They are both estranged from their families.

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

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

4. At the end of the chapter, Lipsha's intention is to:
(a) Follow Gerry over the Canadian border.
(b) Continue trying to find himself.
(c) Return to the reservation.
(d) Make sure King does not turn Gerry in.

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

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

7. Lipsha believes Nector is having a "second childhood" because:
(a) Nector has simply slipped into old age.
(b) Nector just wants to think and act like a child.
(c) Nector wants to pretend he doesn't understand the adult world anymore.
(d) Nector has chosen to retreat inside himself in order to think.

8. When Albertine says she "would never know how heavy a ton was unless it fell on [her]" she suggests:
(a) She does not really approve of Dot and Gerry's relationship.
(b) She does not really understand her job.
(c) That love can not be measured.
(d) She has not known the same kind of love as Dot and Gerry.

9. Henry shrieks when Albertine touches him because:
(a) He is furious that she woke him up.
(b) He can't remember where he is.
(c) He thinks she is an animal.
(d) He is emotionally unstable.

10. 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.

11. The fact that Lyman cannot keep the positions of the North and South Vietnamese soldiers straight implies:
(a) Lyman has never been good with geography.
(b) He doesn't want to know about Henry's experiences in the war.
(c) He doesn't care where Henry went.
(d) He is not concerned with the details of their war.

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

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

14. Henry is never still because:
(a) He is nervous about Albertine watching him.
(b) He is upset about leaving his family on the reservation.
(c) He is scarred from his experiences as a prisoner of war.
(d) He is afraid of the authorities in Fargo.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Albertine believes Gerry's main problem is:

2. When Howard allows the police into the apartment, who does he believe they are there to arrest?

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

4. Marie admits that Lipsha was always her favorite after:

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

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