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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 Edwin's mother's boyfriend's name?
2. Which rapper does Tony Loneman like listening to?
3. What is the object of Edwin's addiction?
4. What does Dene's uncle die from?
5. Who is the author of the poem that begins the prologue section?
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 happens to Tony when he gets really angry?
3. According to the prologue narrator, what happened following another shared meal between Indians and colonists in 1623, two years after the land-deal meal?
4. 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?
5. What happened to Metacomet, the Wampanoag Indian Chief?
6. 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?
7. What was the old Cheyenne story in the prologue about?
8. How would you describe Edwin's relationship with his mother, Karen?
9. How does Opal and Jacquie's mother decide to manage her illness when she finds out she has cancer?
10. Where does the prologue narrator say the Indian Head image appeared until the late 1970s?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Calvin and Orvil are two characters who share an absence of a feeling of heritage or a sense of real history of their Native culture. For each of these characters, which is the more important part of being Native - a bloodline, or a sense of learned culture?
Essay Topic 2
How does Orange feel about the urban landscape as an environment for Indians? Use specific examples from several characters' experiences and narratives to support your ideas.
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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