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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 name of Dene's uncle who inspires his video project?
2. Which city does the narrator focus on as a center for urban Indians?
3. What Radiohead song does Dene listen to on the way to his grant interview?
4. Where does Edwin's mother say she has heard about a job opening?
5. Who is Tony Loneman's grandmother?
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. Where does Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield's mother take she and her half-sister Jacquie after they abruptly move out of the yellow house in Oakland?
3. What physical condition does Edwin suffer from at the beginning of the novel and what is it a possible metaphor for?
4. What is the one main thing that Tony Loneman and Octavio Gomez have in common?
5. What did the colonists do to the Pequot at the Green Corn Dance in 1637?
6. What life-altering event happens to Jacquie on Alcatraz?
7. Where does the prologue narrator say the Indian Head image appeared until the late 1970s?
8. What was the old Cheyenne story in the prologue about?
9. What do Dene Oxendene and the white hipster named Rob talk about as they both wait for their art grant interviews?
10. What steps does Edwin Black take in order to try to find his father for the first time?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Jacquie and Opal's mother had a saying about a spider's web being both a home and a trap. Explain the significance of spiders in There There and what Orange was trying to illustrate with the strange incidence of both Jacquie and Orvil pulling spider legs out of their own bodies.
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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