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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 was Chief Massasoit's son's name?
2. Which rapper does Tony Loneman like listening to?
3. Who is Tony Loneman's grandmother?
4. How old is Tony Loneman?
5. What does Tony Loneman call his own face?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the prologue narrator say was the true main purpose of the first meal in 1621 between Indians and colonists that Americans now celebrate and commemorate as Thanksgiving?
2. How would you describe Edwin's relationship with his mother, Karen?
3. How does Opal and Jacquie's mother decide to manage her illness when she finds out she has cancer?
4. What are some of the media representations of Indians that are mentioned critically in the prologue?
5. What do Dene Oxendene and the white hipster named Rob talk about as they both wait for their art grant interviews?
6. What physical condition does Edwin suffer from at the beginning of the novel and what is it a possible metaphor for?
7. Orange opens the prologue with a Bertolt Brecht poem about singing in dark times. How is this poem relevant to Native history as Orange writes about it in There There?
8. What is the one main thing that Tony Loneman and Octavio Gomez have in common?
9. Who is Dene Oxendene's inspiration for his video storytelling project on Natives?
10. What did the colonists do to the Pequot at the Green Corn Dance in 1637?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Cyclical, generational poverty motivates many of the young male Native characters in There There to make violent choices. What parallels does Orange draw between the systemic oppression Natives suffered at the hands of whites and the present-day financial struggles of the young Natives in the novel?
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 does the James Baldwin quote that Orange uses to begin Part III, "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them," mean in the context of what happened to Natives in America from the colonial times to the present day (157)?
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