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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. In "The Great Drive," about how many miles a day did the group progress?

2. What fruit did Father Severine bring Holy Track in "Confessional"?

3. What plant did Joseph and Evelina always dump the contents of the spittoon onto?

4. How many baskets would Asiginak and Holy Track make at a time before they would start selling them?

5. When was the plague of doves?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Mooshum, Cuthbert, Asiginak, and Holy Track find at the Lochren Farm?

2. Why did John Wildstrand ask Billy Peace to kidnap his wife?

3. How did Junesse and Mooshum come to live at the Black Ranch?

4. How did Judge Coutts try to get to know Geraldine?

5. What happened to the men who lynched the men accused of the murders at Lochren farm?

6. What expedition did Joseph J. Coutts join and why?

7. Why did Evelina stop calling Sister Mary Anita Godzilla and try to stop the other children from calling her that?

8. Why did Evelina call Sister Mary Anita Godzilla?

9. How did Junesse and Mooshum survive when they ran off together?

10. In "The Plague of the Doves," why did a Catholic priest ask his parishioners to gather at the church and then walk the fields?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Shamengwa had two fiddles in his life. What were the two fiddles in Shamengwa’s life? Why were these fiddles so important to him?

Essay Topic 2

Shamengwa’s mother was devastated when his baby brother died. How did the death of Shamengwa’s baby brother affect his mother? How did her grief affect the family? Did her grief destroy the family?

Essay Topic 3

Marn is able to visualize pictures in her mind that seem as real as being there. When and why did Marn begin visualizing pictures in her mind? Why did she continue visualizing? Why were the pictures so important to her?

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