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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 think about Edwin?

2. Who fights with Manny and Daniel's father and removes him from the house?

3. What does Octavio bring to SIxto's house the first time he sees him after his mother and brother's deaths?

4. What is Bill Davis's job?

5. What image was on the television when Jacquie and Opal left Ronald's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Octavio feel about his uncle Sixto?

3. What very strange physical ailment do Orvil and Opal share?

4. What is the one thing Thomas Frank was always good at?

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

6. Why does Blue decide to leave her husband Paul?

7. How does Bill Davis feel about Edwin Black?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cyclical, generational poverty motivates many of the young male Native characters in There There to make violent choices. What parallels does Orange draw between the systemic oppression Natives suffered at the hands of whites and the present-day financial struggles of the young Natives in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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).

Essay Topic 3

Octavio is the only character who is killed at the powwow for whom Orange does not include a chapter from his perspective as he dies. Write an essay analyzing the effect Orange's choice has on the characterization of Octavio and the impact that choice has on the reader's perception of Octavio.

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