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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 old is Tony Loneman?

2. What is Edwin's mother's name?

3. Which policy involved moving Indians to cities?

4. Where does Edwin's mother say she has heard about a job opening?

5. In the old Cheyenne folktale, what happens to the rolling head after it drinks the water from the chasm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Dene Oxendene and the white hipster named Rob talk about as they both wait for their art grant interviews?

2. What is the main issue that Dene is insecure about as he goes into his interview for his arts grant application?

3. What happened to Metacomet, the Wampanoag Indian Chief?

4. How would you describe Edwin's relationship with his mother, Karen?

5. What happens to Tony when he gets really angry?

6. Who is Dene Oxendene's inspiration for his video storytelling project on Natives?

7. What did the colonists do to the Pequot at the Green Corn Dance in 1637?

8. What was the first novel written by a Native person about?

9. How does Opal and Jacquie's mother decide to manage her illness when she finds out she has cancer?

10. What was moving Indians to urban centers and cities supposed to have accomplished?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Opal's mother tells both Opal and Jacquie how important it is for them to always tell their stories, but Opal is opposed to telling the Red Feather boys - her adoptive grandsons - about their Native culture. Opal prefers to let them discover what it means to be Native on their own. Why do you think she chooses this approach, especially since Orvil has expressed such enthusiasm for learning about his heritage?

Essay Topic 2

Guns and gun violence play an important role in There There. Orange introduces the plastic 3-D guns early on and devotes a scathing, dramatic rumination on death in the setting of a mass shooting in the Interlude. Analyze Orange's treatment of guns and explain how their significance has evolved in Native history from the colonial through the modern periods.

Essay Topic 3

What is Tony Loneman's last action before he dies? How does this act relate to what he says at the book's opening, "Maybe I'm'a do something one day, and everybody's gonna know about me. Maybe that's when I'll come to life. Maybe that's when they'll finally be able to look at me, because they'll have to" (19).

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