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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. In "Earth, Speak," what is the bad smell outside Daryl's uncle's cabin coming from?
2. In "The Name Means Thunder," what planet does David choose to label with an alternative name?
3. In "Safe Harbor," what is the name of the woman that asks David to get her some cigarettes?
4. In the beginning of "Smokes Last," what is David's mother making for dinner?
5. In "Smokes Last," what is David's intention when he tells JP that Tyson said he is too heavy for the rope swing?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Earth, Speak," what is the ostensible reason that David and Fellis go to see Daryl?
2. 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)?
3. In "Safe Harbor," what is written on the clinic's whiteboard, and what is David's reaction?
4. In "Night of the Living Rez," what is David's rhetorical purpose in describing the details of how his mother is driving as she questions him about his father?
5. In "Safe Harbor," what does David's reaction to his mother's medical crisis reveal about their relationship?
6. In "Earth, Speak," why is Fellis so angry at Daryl?
7. In "Night of the Living Rez," what does David think the woman has in the Gatorade bottle, and how does he later learn what the liquid really is?
8. 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?
9. In "Half-Life," what incident early in the story demonstrates how much time David has begun losing to his drug use?
10. In "The Name Means Thunder," what is ambiguous about Bedogi's manner of death, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Meekew appears first in "Get Me Some Medicine," but this is not his only appearance in the stories in Night of the Living Rez. He appears again in "Half-Life." Is his characterization in this story consistent with his characterization in the earlier story? Does he play a similar role? How does his appearance in "Half-Life" augment what the reader already knows about him? How does having read many stories about David's life in between these two appearances impact the reader's reaction to Meekew? In retrospect, is the vicious beating Fellis gives Meekew in "Get Me Some Medicine" more or less shocking after reading more stories about David and Fellis? Write an essay that takes and defends a position on Talty's purpose in bringing Meekew back into the collection in "Half-Life." Support your assertions with evidence drawn from both stories. Cite all quoted evidence in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
You have already spent some time considering how the title "Half-Life" relates to the motif of sleep and unconsciousness. David is in many ways "half-alive" in this story. But the term "half-life" generally is used to refer to the decay rate of substances--radioactive elements, medications, and so on. How is this additional meaning related to David's drug-induced somnambulism? Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about what might be "decaying" in David or in his life and show how this is related to the larger motif of "sleepwalking" through life. Support your assertions with evidence from throughout the story, citing any quoted evidence in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
How does the fact of the reservation being an island relate to the Goog'ooks in the walls of David's home? What malevolent force surrounds the reservation? How does its history as a cemetery indicate that the "evil spirits" come from inside the reservation, too? How does this relate to David's situation at home? Write an essay that creates an analogy between the physical setting of the reservation itself and David's home. Analyze the thematic significance of this analogy, supporting your analysis with evidence drawn from throughout the text. Cite all quoted evidence in MLA format.
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