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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. When Bernie returns home from her morning run in Chapter 10, she’s received a voice message from a man who rents a house from whom?

2. Who interrogates Jackson Banally in Chapter 8?

3. What does Mrs. Tsosie say her son Garrison’s girlfriend’s name is in Chapter 10?

4. What had Route 666 been nicknamed before they changed its number?

5. Where does Chee say Leaphorn has been transferred to a different hospital when he calls her at her mother’s house in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bernie find when she arrives at Joe Leaphorn’s home in Chapter 2?

2. Where is Chee going in the beginning of Chapter 6? Why? What does he remark about their leads before he leaves?

3. What do Bernie and Chee make of the phone call from Louisa in Chapter 5?

4. What information about Leaphorn does Bernie relate to the FBI agent that arrives on the crime scene in Chapter 1?

5. How does Bernie come to witness the crime that takes place in Chapter 1? What does she witness?

6. Why does Bernie go to Leaphorn’s home in Chapter 4? Who does she discover there?

7. What does Mrs. Benally tell Bernie about her use of the car in Chapter 3?

8. What new lead does Chee tell Bernie about in Chapter 9? How is the suspect tied to Leaphorn?

9. What inner conflict does Bernie face in the beginning of Chapter 7? How is it resolved?

10. Who is Mrs. Benally’s son? Who does Mrs. Benally say her son was with on Monday morning in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of family in Spider Woman’s Daughter. How is this theme illustrated through Bernie’s mother and sister? What relationship does Chee have with his family? How is “family” related to “clan” within the Navajo Nation?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrative style of Spider Woman’s Daughter. Is the story related from a first, second, or third-person narrator? Is the narrator involved in the action? Is the narrator’s perspective omniscient or limited? What effect does each of these choices have on the reader?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the character of Captain Largo in the novel. What is Bernie’s relationship like with her boss? How does Largo know Leaphorn? Why does Largo choose to take Bernie off the investigation into Leaphorn’s shooting?

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