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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 did Evelina's paternal grandfather want her father to be?

2. When was the plague of doves?

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

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

5. How often would a boy whose mother's lungs rotted walk his mother to church in "Holy Track, The Boots"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where did Mooshum's parents live when he was an infant, and why did they leave?

3. How did Henri and Lafayette Peace get buffalo?

4. What happened when Johann Vogeli did not want to be involved in hanging the men accused of the murders at Lochren farm?

5. How did Joseph and his father create a pond and populate it?

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

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

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

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

10. How did Mooshum say that he met his wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Novels can be structured and divided in different ways. How does the structure of a novel provide clarity and flow to a story? What are chapter titles? What are some purposes of chapter titles? How does Erdrich use chapter titles in The Plague of Doves?

Essay Topic 2

Holy Track, Asiginak, and Cuthbert were lynched. Why were they lynched? How did a mob decide they were guilty? How did the actions of the vigilantes result in a miscarriage of justice?

Essay Topic 3

Cordelia began to believe she knew who murdered her family. Who did Cordelia believe murdered her family? How did she deduce that Warren Wolde was the murderer?

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