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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. Where is there an open house on New Year's?

2. Who makes the bangs for the New Year's open house?

3. What color coat and hat does a woman wear who wants to tell Indian stories to Asema and Tookie?

4. What does the father of Hetta's baby do?

5. In what grade was Jackie Kettle Tookie's teacher?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Tookie is reading the book Flora was reading when she died?

2. What did Tookie want while she was waiting for her trial for moving Budgie's body?

3. Why does Kateri call Tookie about a mix-up?

4. What did Tookie do for Danae?

5. When the bookstore was renovated, what was done to keep out malignant energies?

6. Who was Flora?

7. Who is Kateri and what does she bring Tookie?

8. Where did Tookie get a job after she got out of prison?

9. What does Tookie say about Flora's visits in "Blue"?

10. How does Tookie offend Hetta?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Tookie's feelings and attitude toward customers changes while working at the bookstore. Why do her feelings toward customers change? What does this reveal about Tookie's character?

Essay Topic 2

Imagery is a literary device authors use to describe something using the five senses to help readers experience what a character is experiencing. How does the author use imagery to help readers imagine the world she has created?

Essay Topic 3

Tookie makes a comment that Native Americans do not wish to be victims. Why does she make that comment? How has the troubled relationship between Native Americans and whites caused Indigenous people to be seen as victims?

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