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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 kind of boots do Lewis and his friends wear?

2. What condition did Lewis and his friends take in order to not have to pay a fine for hunting the elk they killed?

3. What is a way to tell who the ghost elk is?

4. What area of the reservation do Lewis and his friends hunt on during the Thanksgiving Classic?

5. What does Lewis tell Shaney that he has not even told his wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lewis's dog Harley die?

2. What does Lewis see when he and Shaney play basketball in Part I?

3. How does Lewis remember that he knew Peta was a "real girl?"

4. What is unusual about the young elk Lewis kills?

5. In Part I, how does Peta save Lewis from potentially serious injury?

6. What does Ricky see outside the bar in North Dakota that shocks him?

7. What is unsettling about Lewis's new rental house with Peta?

8. Why does Lewis bury the elk fetus?

9. What makes all the noise at Lewis's new rental house?

10. Why does Lewis make a masking-tape elk shape on his living room floor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Jones use Lewis's spiraling descent into paranoia and increasing madness to set the tone and build suspense? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Although they make light of it at first, eventually Gabe and Cassidy both settle into the ritual of the sweat lodge. How would you describe these two characters' feelings about the ritual? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

At many different points throughout the novel, Jones employs graphic language to describe scenes of violence and murder. Write an essay explaining the effect Jones' use of language has on the reader's experience of the novel.

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