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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 Daniel teach himself to do at least in part with the help of an online community?

2. What color are the 3-D plastic guns?

3. Why does Blue not want to leave the bus station bathroom?

4. How did Jacquie's daughter die?

5. What was the name of the trickster spider Jacquie and Opal's mother told them stories about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did Opal and Jacquie leave Ronald's house as young girls?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who gave Opal the regalia that Orvil has secretly been trying on and what is that person's relationship to another main character?

10. How does Octavio feel about his uncle Sixto?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Many characters in There There struggle with alcohol addiction. Why is alcohol, specifically, such a big problem for so many Natives? What are some of the other addictive substances that afflict Orange's Native characters, and how do they attempt to overcome their addictions?

Essay Topic 3

How does Tony Loneman's struggle with "The Drome" exemplify the general Native struggle with alcohol addiction?

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