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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. Who is Edwin's father?
2. What did Edwin once dream of becoming?
3. What do Octavio and Tony Loneman have in common and bond over in conversation?
4. What tribe does Tony's grandmother tell him he is from?
5. Which food is mentioned in the prologue as Native but not traditional?
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 one main thing that Tony Loneman and Octavio Gomez have in common?
3. What is the main issue that Dene is insecure about as he goes into his interview for his arts grant application?
4. What life-altering event happens to Jacquie on Alcatraz?
5. 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?
6. What did the colonists do to the Pequot at the Green Corn Dance in 1637?
7. How does Opal and Jacquie's mother decide to manage her illness when she finds out she has cancer?
8. What steps does Edwin Black take in order to try to find his father for the first time?
9. What happened to Metacomet, the Wampanoag Indian Chief?
10. What physical condition does Edwin suffer from at the beginning of the novel and what is it a possible metaphor for?
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
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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