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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 does David keep in the black plastic tub?
2. In "In a Jar," what happens to Paige on the night the siblings hear the knocking in the walls?
3. How does David imagine feeling when he returns to Rab's?
4. In "In a Jar," where do David and Paige go with their grandmother?
5. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what does the burning chicken casserole demonstrate about the characters' lives?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Food for the Common Cold," what is the difference between the way the adult narrator David and the child David in the story see the mood in the household during the week that Frick is gone?
2. In "Get Me Some Medicine," how do David and Fellis end up binge-watching an old television series?
3. In "Get Me Some Medicine," what details demonstrate that David's friendship with Fellis does not blind David to Fellis's faults?
4. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," how does David use the layout of the hospital as a metaphor for the human mind?
5. In "Burn," what point about economic realities on the reservation does David make as he steps in the boot prints along the sidewalk on his way home?
6. What irritates David about the questions the hospital staff keeps asking him while he is waiting for Fellis in "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars"?
7. In "In a Field of Stray Caterpillars," what does David point to as the beginning of the breakdown in his relationship with Tabitha?
8. In "Get Me Some Medicine," why does Fellis get so angry at David for saying that Meekew could beat Fellis in a fistfight?
9. In "The Blessing Tobacco," where does David get a drink on his way home from his grandmother's, and what is the significance of this?
10. In "In a Jar," what does David's mother tell him about Goog'ooks?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Given the events in the stories in this collection, it is clear that there are drawbacks to being a member of David's family, and that intergenerational trauma has a negative impact on his life. But what are the strengths of this family and of the tradition to which they belong? How might David's life have been diminished and his outcomes been worse if the family did not have these strengths to draw on? Write an essay that demonstrates that David's family and community pass on more than trauma to the younger generation. Support your assertions with evidence drawn from throughout the story, citing any quoted evidence in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Does the whiteness of the snow and ice in "Burn" matter? Is this story indicting the conditions on the reservation that result from White interference in Native life? Or does it matter more that the snow is a cold, frozen obstacle--a static "trap" that communicates something about the way Natives can be "frozen" and "trapped" in old traditions and ways of thinking? Now that you have read the entire collection, which interpretation of the snow in "Burn" seems most correct to you? Write an essay in which you take and defend a position about what the snow represents. You can choose either interpretation--or both--to defend, as long as your argument is thoroughly supported with evidence from "Burn" and from at least two other stories in the collection. Cite any quoted material in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
What symbolic role does hair play in the stories in Night of the Living Rez? In "Burn," why is Fellis trapped by his hair, why does he want David to retrieve it, and what do David's thoughts about whether to get the hair or some pot first signify? Why is there hair in the jar in "In a Jar?" Why does David make a point of mentioning his mother's short hair several times in the earlier stories, and what happens to her hair over the course of the collection? In later stories, what is the significance of characters whose hair has come unbraided? Using evidence from the text and from outside resources, write an analysis of the symbolic value of hair in Night of the Living Rez. Cite quoted material and borrowed ideas in MLA format.
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