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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 was Geraldine wearing when Judge Coutts decided he would marry her?

2. What was the name of Electa Hoag's husband?

3. What did Evelina learn that Sister Mary Anita was allergic to?

4. How many years did Mooshum and Junesse live on the Black ranch?

5. In "Confessional," what was used for rugs in the church?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Holy Track give himself up when the men came looking for him and Mooshum?

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

3. Why did Evelina call Sister Mary Anita Godzilla?

4. Why did Billy Peace join the army?

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

6. What did Clemence tell Evelina about her the racial heritage of her grandmother, Junesse?

7. What happened when Judge Coutts got Geraldine to go fishing with him?

8. How did the expedition Joseph Coutts joined start out?

9. Where did Mooshum and Holy Track hide when they were being pursued for the murder at the Lochren Farm?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Setting is the place and time where a novel takes place. What is the setting in The Plague of Doves? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the mood in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Billy’s religion grew into a cult. What abuse did Marne and her children experience because of Billy’s religion? Why did she kill him?

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