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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What activity did the visually impaired woman who stayed with Katherine's family have to give up?

2. What is Katherine's surname?

3. Aware of the approaching fire, where does Katherine run to in Chapter 11?

4. Where is Ralph from originally?

5. Why does Katherine insist that Bull MacGregor should go to jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Katherine's weekly luncheons and tea parties get started?

2. What does Uncle John mean by "It will Chinook"?

3. In what way has Katherine broken rules in Chapter 1?

4. Who is traveling in a train at the beginning of the novel? Where is she going?

5. In Chapter 4, why does Katherine throw a fit when she finds out Mike wants to marry her?

6. What does Sergeant Mike suggest Katherine can use for ammunition when she goes shooting?

7. In Chapter 11, when a forest fire approaches the town, where does Mike instruct Katherine to go?

8. In Chapter 10, how is it explained that the people in the Northwest Territory are able to navigate themselves from one place to another?

9. What causes delays in Katherine's trip in Chapter 1?

10. Who is Ralph Peters and why has he come to the Northwest Territory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the reader learn about Native Canadian culture? What does Katherine learn, and how does she react to the differences between her own culture and the Native Canadian culture?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the protagonist of the novel, Katherine. What are her defining character traits? What is most important to her and why? What important events take place during her life? How does she grow as a character as the novel progresses?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the struggles faced by Katherine throughout the novel. How does she deal with these obstacles? How does she overcome them? What causes these problems for her?

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