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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. In "Earth, Speak," what rumor does Beth share about Ralph Nelson?
(a) He is selling fake Native art.
(b) He is about to be evicted.
(c) He is starting a new lumber business.
(d) He is going to run for tribal council.

2. In "Night of the Living Rez," when David's mother drops a fork, what does she say this means?
(a) Bad luck for the household.
(b) Spirits are watching.
(c) Strangers are coming.
(d) They will go hungry.

3. In "The Name Means Thunder," what does Paige burn at the end of the story?
(a) Tobacco and sage.
(b) Bedogi's birth certificate.
(c) David's toy men.
(d) The ash basket.

4. In "Earth, Speak," what techniques are used when David says that "morning fog hovered above miles of pines like the nests of fall webworms in the crooks of brown branches" (199)?
(a) Personification and metaphor.
(b) Metaphor and imagery.
(c) Imagery and simile.
(d) Simile and personification.

5. In "Smokes Last," what thematic motif does the setting of the clearing in the woods symbolically reinforce?
(a) Growing up on the reservation can be lonely and difficult.
(b) A child surrounded by poor role models is unlikely to thrive.
(c) Insularity is a natural response to constant prejudice from outsiders.
(d) Substance abuse is an understandable response to trauma.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Safe Harbor," what is David's intent when he tells his mother that she is hallucinating?

2. In "Smokes Last," what does David believe is the reason his mother has been irritable with him and Frick lately?

3. What techniques are used in "Safe Harbor" when David says "sharp pine trees clutter and lean into each other, and cardinals and finches flutter and jet from tree to tree" (127)?

4. In "Earth, Speak," what does David steal from Daryl's cabin?

5. In "The Name Means Thunder," when does David say he thought about the nice things Frick sometimes did for him when he was a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Safe Harbor," what is written on the clinic's whiteboard, and what is David's reaction?

2. In "Safe Harbor," what suspicion does David have about the worker outside the clinic in the beginning of the story that is borne out by the man's remarks near the story's end?

3. At the end of "Night of the Living Rez," how is David's mother's behavior similar to her behavior near the end of "Earth, Speak"?

4. In "Safe Harbor," when David is discussing his and his mother's trauma, what cryptic comment hints to the reader that he has yet to reveal some major source of trauma?

5. In "Half-Life," what incident early in the story demonstrates how much time David has begun losing to his drug use?

6. In the beginning of "Smokes Last," what is ironic about David's mother's instructions to him before he leaves to play in the woods with his friends?

7. In "Night of the Living Rez," what is a reasonable inference about whom Paige is referring to when she loudly calls someone "That motherfucking pig," and what evidence backs up this inference (244)?

8. When David is running from the police in "Earth, Speak," what help does he get from an unexpected source, and what evidence is there in the end of the story that this gesture mattered deeply to David?

9. In "Night of the Living Rez," what are the pugwagees?

10. In "Smokes Last," what story does Frick tell about shooting in his childhood, and how does it reinforce a motif in the way he relates to David?

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