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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. Who does Chee say found Leaphorn’s cat in Chapter 8?

2. Where does Louisa say she’s going for a conference in Chapter 5?

3. What is the name of the new suspect that has a record and a motive in Chapter 9?

4. What magazine does Bernie get at the convenience store to take to her mother in Chapter 10?

5. What number was Route 666 reassigned to in 2003?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the last action on the case that Largo asks of Bernie in Chapter 2?

2. How do Jackson Benally’s story and alibi change during his interrogation in Chapter 8?

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

4. What information does Bernie learn from the office manager at the police station in Chapter 7?

5. What reference to the novel’s title appears in Chapter 4? How is “Spider Woman” described?

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

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

8. What does Bernie discover when she arrives at her mother’s house in Chapter 4?

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

10. Why do Chee and Bernie go to Bashas’ grocery store in Chapter 3? What do they discover when they arrive?

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 character of Darleen in the novel. How much younger is Darleen than her sister Bernie? How are Darleen and Bernie similar? How are they different? Why does Darleen’s behavior in the novel create tension in Bernie’s family?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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