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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. How many dogs on chains does Patrice find at the Bloomington Avenue place?

2. When did Louis Pipestone's father buy a good horse from Red Lake and breed it with a wild buckskin paint?

3. In "Log Jam 26," what place does Patrice see that if Wood Mountain goes inside she will never talk to him again?

4. How old was Thomas when he finished eighth grade?

5. What are the missionaries wearing who come to the Wazhashk house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rose tell Thomas that he has been poisoned in "Ajax"?

2. What does Wood Mountain want to do with his life?

3. Why did Thomas go to boarding school?

4. What news is there of Vera from Gerald and Betty Pye's cousin?

5. Why does Patrice need time off work, and how does she get time off?

6. Who is Arthur V. Watkins and what is his history?

7. What type of iron did Thomas buy Rose and why?

8. What does Patrice have for lunch and why in "Lard on Bread"?

9. What does Bernadette send the baby with when she gives him to Patrice?

10. What is a short description of the bill that Congress wants to pass regarding the Indians?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Millie is the daughter of Louis Pipestone. How had Millie been raised? How has she been able to go to college and become a Ph.D. candidate? How does Millie order her life and her surroundings? What does she like to wear? What do her actions and how she orders her life reveal about obsession?

Essay Topic 2

Bucky nearly rapes Patrice. How do Bucky, Norbert, and Barnes treat women? Why are the men examples of toxic masculinity?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

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