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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. What is it called when a Coast Salish marriage ends?
(a) Severing the rope.
(b) Loosing the spirit.
(c) Ending the time.
(d) Cutting the blanket.

2. Where did Aunt Susie say she found her power?
(a) The river.
(b) The mountain.
(c) Her family.
(d) The longhouse.

3. What caused the author's uncle's death?
(a) Diabetes.
(b) Overdose.
(c) Car accident.
(d) Cancer.

4. What movie did the author watch after the reading as she tried to sleep?
(a) The Goonies.
(b) The Lost Boys.
(c) Interview with the Vampire.
(d) Dracula.

5. Who was on the poster the author hung in her temporary home in Seattle?
(a) Lou Reed.
(b) Agent Cooper.
(c) David Bowie.
(d) Nick Cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Comptia's husband charged with?

2. Where did Richard and the author camp together?

3. What concert did Brandon take the author to after her miscarriage?

4. What was the author's great-great-great-grandmother named?

5. When he looked at the ultrasound photo, what did Brandon compare their baby to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What role did rose quartz have in the author's life?

2. Why did the author try to dye her hair blue?

3. How did the author feel about seeing Richard and Brandon at her reading?

4. How did the author feel about the trip to Hawaii with Brandon's family?

5. How did the author's great-grandmother lose her house?

6. How did the author's white friends respond to the idea of her selling the land that she had inherited?

7. What did the author do to make her temporary Seattle home more familiar?

8. What did burying the fetus make the author think of?

9. Why did Comptia's husband need to go to court?

10. How did the author's friends from Seattle respond to visiting her new home?

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