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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 "Smokes Last," what is the answer to the security question David answers for Western Union?
2. In "Night of the Living Rez," what movie do the boys joke about that makes David hungry for fry bread?
3. Where are Fellis and David when "Half-Life" opens?
4. In "Half-Life," what is the name of the assisted living facility that Frances is living in?
5. In "Night of the Living Rez," what is all over David's face when his mother comes home at the end of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Earth, Speak," how does a comment from Tabitha seem paradoxical to David?
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. In "Safe Harbor," what is the double meaning of the question David asks when he is brought into the emergency room?
4. 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?
5. In "Safe Harbor," what is written on the clinic's whiteboard, and what is David's reaction?
6. In "The Name Means Thunder," how do the words that David whispers to Bedogi contrast with what David is really thinking and feeling?
7. In "Half-Life," what series of questions does David ask himself about his life?
8. In "Earth, Speak," what is the ostensible reason that David and Fellis go to see Daryl?
9. In "Smokes Last," how do David and Tyson end up breaking a window?
10. 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"?
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
Now that you have read the entire collection, what foreshadowing do you see in the discovery of the glass jar in "In a Jar"? How does this foreshadowing relate to the symbolic function of miniatures and containers in this story? What larger theme developed in this collection does this support? Write an essay in which you analyze the symbolic function of containers and miniatures in "In a Jar" and then connect this to events that take place later in the collection, showing how this symbolism is being used to introduce one of the text's thematic motifs. Support your assertions with evidence drawn from throughout the collection, citing any quoted material in MLA format.
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