View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What irritates David's mother the morning he leaves for camp?

2. What did Charles decide he was, leading him to choose his alias?

3. What prompts Charles to wonder if David is hungry in Section 5?

4. In his college papers, to what does Hobuhet compare Native American myths?

5. How does David feel when he awakens after he and Charles first stop to rest?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe David's mother's last memories of him.

2. What is Katsuk's reaction to David's curse and the questions he asks about the duck feathers afterward?

3. What makes Katsuk feel as if he and David may be like brothers in Section 6?

4. What is the purpose of the author including the anthropologist and his analysis of Charles?

5. What does the Raven symbolize for Katsuk?

6. Why does David begin collecting pebbles, and why does it anger Katsuk?

7. How does Katsuk rationalize David's loss of innocence to fit his agenda, and how does that make David feel about what took place with Tskanay?

8. The author uses a curious method of opening the story. Outline that method and what you think it does for the introduction?

9. Why do you think David tries to get Katsuk to run away? We now see that the bond between the two is even stronger than first thought. Why doesn't David run to the rescuers instead of encouraging Katsuk to run away with him?

10. What happens when Katsuk's relatives learn he is insane?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A close relationship develops between kidnapper and victim. By the end of the novel, they both think of the other as his "brother." Describe the development of this relationship from the beginning. Who fights it more? Why? Who is more invested at the end? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Katsuk has a ritual sacrifice ceremony planned when he kidnaps David. What is the importance of David in this ritual? Does David's importance change as Katsuk becomes closer to David? Why or why not? What other items are important in the ritual and why?

Essay Topic 3

The title of this book is Soul Catcher. Describe what that means from the context of the story. What does it mean to Katsuk to be a Soul Catcher?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 894 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample