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

2. What color shirts did Evelina's father wear when he taught school?

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

4. In "Holy Track, The Boots," what did Mooshum buy with bets from horseracing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Henri and Lafayette Peace get buffalo?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did a man do while he repaired his gun and then afterwards in "Solo"?

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

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

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

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

Fragmentation is a literary technique where fragments make up the greater part of a book. How does Erdrich use fragmentation to tell the story of the town of Pluto?

Essay Topic 3

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

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