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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 is the name of Hoppy's girlfriend?

2. What Indians does Koi Chitto encounter who are cannibals in Chapter 6?

3. When the Casino of the Sun was built, what percent of a kickback did the Indians get?

4. In Chapter 11, how many years ago did Anoleta fail to poison Red Shoes?

5. In Chapter 9, for how many generations does the woman who asks to be called Shakbatina say she has waited?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Auda goes to the dental clinic?

2. In Chapter 11, what has Red Shoes carried and how does he describe them?

3. What does Bienville warn Anoleta about Red Shoes?

4. How was Shakbatina's body prepared by Nitakechi when she died?

5. What does Gore know about Delores and Dovie Love?

6. What does Red Shoes tell Anoleta that he is doing in Chapter 8?

7. What does a woman emissary chant to Red Shoes in Chapter 11?

8. In Chapter 12, where does Auda dream that she goes, and what happens there?

9. How does Koi Chitto die?

10. At the beginning of Chapter 9, what does a woman say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Shakbatina and other characters use color? What do various colors symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

Koi Chitto encounters an alligator and a porcupine spirit. How does Koi Chitto encounter an alligator? How does he encounter a porcupine spirit? What do the alligator and the spirit symbolize about his destiny?

Essay Topic 3

Sarah Bernhardt is an old woman of indeterminate age. What is known about Sarah Bernhardt? What role does she play in the novel? Why is she described as a trickster?

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