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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 settles a lawsuit out of court in "Lawyer's League"?
2. What kind of lawyers are most of the players on Steve's team?
3. How does the woman respond when the man asks her if she was inside the place that just got bombed?
4. What are the parents in "Do Not Go Gentle" and the other parents in the hospital sick and tired of?
5. How many times does the baby die and get resuscitated?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the influence of Native American culture on the life of the woman in "Can I Get a Witness?"
2. What is the significance of Harlan Atwater not giving his real name to Corliss?
3. Do you think the woman in "Can I Get a Witness" is thinking clearly after the bombing, or do you think her head injury affects her speech and behavior?
4. Explain how overhearing the other fathers in the hospital bathroom motivates the father in "Do Not Go Gentle."
5. Why does the father in "Do Not Go Gentle" think his wife is more sorrowful than he is over their son's critical condition?
6. What do Corliss's visits to McDonald's illustrate?
7. Explain why Corliss identifies so strongly with Harlan Atwater.
8. How is it ironic that Bill is the only prosecutor in the lawyer's basketball league?
9. How does the woman's inability to get her waiter's attention at the beginning of "Can I Get a Witness" symbolize her relationship with her husband and sons?
10. How does Corliss differ from the rest of her family?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast three of the following African American characters from Ten Little Indians: William from "Lawyer's League," Fekadu from "Flight Patterns," and Preacher, Russell, or the point guard from "What Ever Happened to Frank Snake Church?" Do the African-American characters treat the Native American characters differently than white characters do? Do the Native American characters feel differently about the African-American characters than they do about the white characters? Cite examples from the text to support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
Parenting is a theme in many of the stories in Ten Little Indians. Compare and contrast the parents in "Do Not Go Gentle" with Estelle in "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above" and Corliss's parents in "The Search Engine." How does each set of parents deal with the blending of Native American culture and mainstream American culture in the raising of their children? Cite examples from the text to support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
"Lawyer's League," "Do Not Go Gentle," and "Do You Know Where I Am?" are written in the first-person point of view while the other stories in Ten Little Indians are written in the third-person point of view. Discuss why you think Sherman Alexie selected the first-person viewpoint for each of these three stories. Also discuss whether you think first-person is an effective viewpoint for these stories. Cite examples from the text to support your conclusions.
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