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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 type of animal was in Daniel's dream that he tells Manny about in his email?
2. What did Manny used to leave on the table in envelopes for Daniel and his mother?
3. Which war did Bill serve in?
4. What kind of animal does Fina ask Octavio to collect fur from while she holds it down?
5. What kind of criminal activity do Manny and Octavio engage in after they kick Manny's father out of the house?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the interlude, what does the narrator say about last names as they relate to Natives?
2. What story does Orvil tell Dene Oxendene for his video storytelling project?
3. What does Daniel do after his brother Manny's death to feel closer to him?
4. Why did Opal and Jacquie leave Ronald's house as young girls?
5. What very strange physical ailment do Orvil and Opal share?
6. Why does Orange suggest Opal has developed superstitious behaviors?
7. How does Octavio feel about his uncle Sixto?
8. What is the one thing Thomas Frank was always good at?
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. What does Calvin Johnson tell Dene Oxendene for his video storytelling project?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
The internet and online communities are both positive and negative influences in There There. Write an essay analyzing the role the internet plays in the lives of both Edwin Black and Daniel Gonzales.
Essay Topic 3
What is the relationship between the book's prologue section and Dene Oxendene's vision for his storytelling project? In what ways could Dene's project be viewed as a response to the prologue narrator's views on the problems inherent in the historical representations of Natives in America?
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