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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 does Bill see and try to catch as he is working at the coliseum?

2. Who is the boy Opal meets while in the foster system that becomes a lover and lifelong friend?

3. What does Loother forget to bring to the powwow?

4. What is the name of Calvin Johnson's brother?

5. How does Jacquie meet Harvey for the first time decades after they parted on Alcatraz?

Short Essay Questions

1. What bizarre story does Harvey tell Jacquie as they drive together from Phoenix to Oakland?

2. Why does Orange suggest Opal has developed superstitious behaviors?

3. What does Orvil Red Feather want Opal to teach him about?

4. What does Bill try to catch out of annoyance when he sees it as he is preforming his maintenance duties at the Oakland Coliseum?

5. What does Octavio's grandmother Josefina ask Octavio to help her with in order to ward off the curse she says he is under?

6. What does Harvey ask Jacquie to do with him when they meet in Phoenix?

7. In the interlude, what does the narrator say about last names as they relate to Natives?

8. What pivotal person from Jacquie's past does she meet in Phoenix and how does she meet him?

9. What story does Orvil tell Dene Oxendene for his video storytelling project?

10. What is one of Bill Davis's great enthusiasms in life?

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

Orange deals with traumatic subjects and themes but he includes moments of levity as well. Analyze how Orange uses humor as a device to develop characters and underscore more serious themes.

Essay Topic 3

Describe some of the representations of the image of the Indian Head in There There. What are some of the themes Orange uses the Indian Head image to symbolize?

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