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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 Bernie order for lunch at the café in Chapter 7?
2. Where did Officer Bernie drive from for the Monday meeting in Chapter 1?
3. Who radios Chee to let him know they have a vehicle that could be the shooter’s in the end of Chapter 2?
4. Who is the next-door neighbor that Bernie calls to come over and sit with her mother until her sister returns home in Chapter 4?
5. Who is the store owner at the convenience store that Bernie stops at on her way to her mother’s in Chapter 10?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Bernie go to Leaphorn’s home in Chapter 4? Who does she discover there?
2. What information does Bernie learn from the office manager at the police station in Chapter 7?
3. What inner conflict does Bernie face in the beginning of Chapter 7? How is it resolved?
4. What does Bernie discover when she arrives at her mother’s house in Chapter 4?
5. What does Mrs. Benally tell Bernie about her use of the car in Chapter 3?
6. Why does Captain Largo tell Bernie to take a few days off work in Chapter 2?
7. What does Bernie learn from Joe Leaphorn’s neurologist in Chapter 6?
8. What possible leads to Bernie and Chee find when they examine Leaphorn’s old files in Chapter 5?
9. What information about Leaphorn does Bernie relate to the FBI agent that arrives on the crime scene in Chapter 1?
10. What reference to the novel’s title appears in Chapter 4? How is “Spider Woman” described?
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
Revenge in Spider Woman’s Daughter
a. Who are the different suspects in the shooting of Joe Leaphorn? What are the motives of each of these suspects?
b. Discuss Dr. Davis’s reasons for committing the crimes she commits in the novel. What are Dr. Davis’s motivations?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the themes of tradition and culture in Spider Woman’s Daughter. How is tradition perceived by Bernie and Chee and others within the Navajo Nation? How does Darleen differ in her views of tradition and culture? In what ways do the traditions and cultures of the Navajos clash with those of the whites in the story?
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