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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 Joe Leaphorn feel has been restored?

2. What does Fleck think is one thing about the Client's identity?

3. Why does Leaphorn go out into the snow?

4. Who is Captain Largo?

5. What has Highhawk been attempting to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why hasn't The Client paid Fleck the rest of the money owed Fleck?

2. Describe Agnes Tsosie's visit to the doctor.

3. Describe what Joe Leaphorn finds at the crime scene Kennedy asks him to investigate.

4. What does Janet Pete tell Jim Chee about a man in a Chevy?

5. What is a possible break Leaphorn makes in the case as he revisits the scene at dusk?

6. About what does Jay Kennedy call Joe Leaphorn?

7. What is one source of cash for Fleck to help his mother and who does he contact about it?

8. What does Anges Tsosie tell Joe Leaphorn when he questions her?

9. Who picks up Chee at the airport and what does he observe about the men?

10. What does the letter Chee receives from Mary reveal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss Talking God based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if Talking God is a successful novel. Explain your rationale with specific examples.

3. Do you think the fact that Talking God is primarily for entertainment changes the criteria upon which its success should be judged? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Oftentimes, a book is more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think Talking God is? Explain your response.

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