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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. Why wouldn't Jim Chee be happy living in Wisconsin?
2. What does Leaphorn do at dusk?
3. What is high quality but worn?
4. What does Fleck think is one thing about the Client's identity?
5. What are the dancers doing that Chee is watching?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe what Joe Leaphorn finds at the crime scene Kennedy asks him to investigate.
2. Who has called Catherine Perry and what does she think he wants?
3. What does Catherine Perry find on her desk and who does she blame?
4. Who picks up Chee at the airport and what does he observe about the men?
5. What ceremony is Jim Chee observing and why is he there?
6. What does Leaphorn find when he searches the luggage of Hilario Madrid- Perez for clues?
7. Describe Henry Highhawk's appearance at the Night Chant ceremony.
8. What does Anges Tsosie tell Joe Leaphorn when he questions her?
9. What shocks Catherine Perry about the box on her desk?
10. What is Jim Chee's response to Mary's letter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One of the overlying themes in this book and indeed most of Hillerman's books is the differences between White, Western culture and that of Native Americans. Choose one of the following questions and write a well-developed, cohesive essay using examples from the text and your research or personal experience:
1. Choose two of the following areas and compare and contrast the White, Western culture with the Native American culture: religion, nature, politics/government, marriage, death, war, gender roles.
2. Using the entire novel of Talking God, write an essay on how you think Hillerman perceives Native American culture.
3. Using the entire novel of Talking God, write an essay on how you think Hillerman perceives white, Western culture.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following:
1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Talking God.
2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Talking God. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Talking God. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the following:
1. Choose two incidences in Talking God and compare/contrast the way the Navajo culture and the western, white culture view those incidents.
2. Write an argument/persuasion essay addressing the idea of assimilation versus a group keeping their own culture when they live within a larger culture.
3. Conduct 2 interviews of Native Americans or persons from a different culture who have moved to the United States and ask them about the idea of assimilation versus merging into the predominent culture of the United States.
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