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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 is the drug referred to repeatedly in the novel called?

2. What color hair does Catherine Case have?

3. What is the name of Lucy's dog?

4. What is Ratan's room number at the Taiyang?

5. What is the name of Anna's husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Angel's character introduced in Chapter 1? What does the author reveal about his character in this chapter?

2. What is significant about the phone call between Angel and Case in Chapter 7?

3. What is established through the exchange between Lucy and Angel in Chapter 16?

4. How do the antagonists for Angel, Lucy, and Maria differ?

5. What motif appears in Chapter 16? What does this motif foreshadow?

6. What is the inciting event that sets the narrative into motion?

7. How does Maria's perspective differ from those of the other main characters when she is introduced in Chapter 3?

8. What is the signifcance of the allusions to Cadillac Desert in Chapter 18?

9. How is Lucy's character juxtaposed against Angel's in Chapter 2?

10. How is the theme of choices illustrated in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes Lucy try to take the water rights in the end of the novel? Do you think she is justified in doing so? Why or why not? What obstacle does this action present to the other main characters?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the setting of The Water Knife. When and where does the action largely take place in the novel? How would you relate this setting to your community today? What has created the setting of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the relationship between Sarah and Maria in the novel. Where and when did Sarah and Maria meet? What led them to living with one another? What does Sarah do for survival? What happens to her in the course of the story?

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