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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. A quote from which author begins Part II?

2. What type of animal was in Daniel's dream that he tells Manny about in his email?

3. Where did Opal and Jacquie go after the fled Ronald's house?

4. What does Karen frequently ask Bill to do for Edwin?

5. What does Lucas offer to do with Opal to put her mind at ease?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Daniel Gonzales's role in the robbery of the Big Oakland Powwow?

4. Why does Opal take care of her half-sister Jacquie's three grandsons instead of Jacquie taking care of them?

5. Why does Octavio's grandmother Josefina think her own father cursed her?

6. How does Calvin Johnson get pulled into the plot to rob the Big Oakland Powwow?

7. What does Calvin Johnson tell Dene Oxendene for his video storytelling project?

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

9. What does Daniel do after his brother Manny's death to feel closer to him?

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

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

Women are the most stabilizing and positive influences in families depicted in There There. Choose three women from the novel and analyze their impact on their families and/or communities.

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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