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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 Annie remind Emily that she will lose if she goes to the big bingo game in Toronto?
2. Who watches Gazelle Nataways' children when she goes off with Big Joey?
3. What language does Emily remind Annie that she doesn't speak?
4. What does Emily teasingly call Zhaboonigan?
5. What emotional state is Veronique in when she comes to see Marie-Adele?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Pelajia get the women's attention as they are bantering about the big bingo game? What does she want to get their attention for?
2. As Pelajia is on her roof in the final scene of the play, she again imagines a better life on the reserve. What role does she say she wish she had and how does she say life would be better because of it?
3. What is Pelajia's first idea for getting the money to travel to Toronto for the big bingo game? What is her argument for this idea?
4. How does the play end?
5. What is Annie's response to Marie-Adele's fears over what might happen after Marie-Adele's death?
6. In the van on their way to Toronto, what fears does Marie-Adele express about Annie considering anything should happen to Marie-Adele?
7. What does Veronique say that she will do with her bingo winnings?
8. During Act 1, Scene3, Part 2, Emily Dictionary does a lot of teasing. Who does she specifically pick on and what does she tease them about?
9. Describe the opening scene of the play.
10. What happens between the women and Nanabush in Act 2, Scene 6 when the women stop to change their van's flat tire?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
At the beginning of the play, Pelajia talks about dreams for her future, dreams that she can see from the roof of her house. How is the expression "window to a better life" employed in this play? Why do the women yearn for a better life and in what ways can we see them searching for it through this "window?" How is this metaphor employed throughout the rest of the play? Provide examples from the play.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how the play ends. What lesson is left to be learned? What becomes of these women at the end of the play? How does the play end structurally and what meaning does that have? Use examples from the play to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the history of Indian reserves in Canada in the context of how the reserve affected the author who subsequently wrote the play. What is the author trying to say about life on a reserve through this play? Is his message effective? Is his message universal or solely having to do with Indian women on a reserve? How is the message more effective in the form of the play as opposed to another literary category such as a novel? Explain your answer.
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