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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Marie discovers later in her life that the convent:
(a) Was a kind of punishment for nuns who went astray.
(b) Was a place for those who had abandoned the church.
(c) Was the final stop for difficult nuns.
(d) Was a part of the government plan to relocate Indians.

2. Eli and Nector's partnership works because:
(a) Eli is shy and Nector is outgoing.
(b) Eli catches the geese, but does not want to sell them.
(c) Eli teaches Nector to hunt, and Nector teaches Eli to sell.
(d) Eli is a good hunter and Nector is a good salesman.

3. Comparing the size of her ignorance to the length of the sky, Marie attempts to convey that:
(a) Her ignorance spanned the globe.
(b) Her ignorance was no hindrance to her.
(c) Her ignorance was pure and wide.
(d) Her ignorance was part of her atmosphere.

4. Inside the bar, June decides to stay with Andy because:
(a) He wants her to party and she hopes he will be
(b) She hopes he will give her money to pay her expenses, as previous men have done.
(c) She really doesn't want to go home.
(d) She doesn't know how she will pay for her drinks.

5. Rushes Bear disowns Nector after the birth of his child because:
(a) He has behaved selfishly and shamefully.
(b) He has refused to pay for the medicine woman.
(c) He calls Marie a name.
(d) He is not home for the birth of his youngest child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Marie love to go to Mass as a child?

2. When Nector believes he is looking at 14-year-old Marie at the end of the chapter, he is actually looking at:

3. What does Nector finally feel about the geese he was going to sell?

4. What feeling will not allow Marie to rejoice in her defeat of Leopolda?

5. What does Leopolda's big key open?

Short Essay Questions

1. Because Nector attended a white school and could no longer remember his past, and Eli was educated by his relatives and still had his wits, what is suggested about white schooling for Native Americans?

2. Describe Marie's relationship with her children, Zelda and Gordie, when they were infants versus now that they are grown.

3. What might the eggs Andy peels, and June consumes, represent? What do eggs symbolize?

4. How does Marie make money to keep her family afloat?

5. Choose three examples of sensory detail from the chapter and describe their uses.

6. When Leopolda scolds her with the tea kettle, how does Marie's perception of her begin to change?

7. Why does Lulu choose to go to the Senior Citizens Center?

8. Why did the author have Zelda find the letter from Nector rather than Marie?

9. Explain the course of events that leads to Lulu's house burning down.

10. Explain the symbol of the red convertible.

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