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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the men found after the tornado?
(a) Shut in the outhouse
(b) Stuck in a tree
(c) Locked in the meat locker
(d) Flung across town

2. What makes Pauline different from her family?
(a) She has blonde hair
(b) She walks with a limp
(c) She cannot talk
(d) She shuns Indian ways

3. What skill does Pauline learn?
(a) Nursing
(b) Watching over the dead
(c) Farming
(d) Teaching

4. What makes fools of anyone?
(a) The lake monster
(b) Starvation
(c) The moon
(d) Religion

5. What does Margaret get Pauline to reveal?
(a) Fleur's pregnancy
(b) Nanapush's love for Margaret
(c) The truth of Fleur in Argus
(d) Pauline's love of Napoleon

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Pukwan treat Fleur when he drags the sled?

2. Who does Pauline leave Argus with?

3. What do the people talk about when Fleur returns?

4. How many days do people travel the death road?

5. What is the name of Fleur's cousin found alive in the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the storm that flattens most of Argus.

2. Describe Fleur's cabin.

3. Describe how Pauline escapes from Argus.

4. Discuss the bear that appears when Lulu is born.

5. Describe the ritual of burying the dead and sitting over them.

6. Describe what happens to the government agents who go into Fleur's woods.

7. What is Nanapush's impression of Pauline?

8. Describe how Fleur lives at Matchimanito after Nanapush revives her from the sickness.

9. Describe Eli and how he differs in character from his own family.

10. Discuss Fleur's drowning and her association with the water man.

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