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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. What does Pauline name her daughter?
(a) Marie
(b) Sophie
(c) Lulu
(d) Fleur

2. Why does Pauline feel no guilt over Napoleon's death?
(a) Because she feels Christ told her to kill him
(b) Because she is delirious
(c) Because she hated him anyway
(d) Because she did not know how the devil would appear

3. Who attacks Nanapush and Margaret on their way home from church?
(a) Boy Lazarre and Clarence Morrissey
(b) Eli Kashpaw
(c) Pauline
(d) Napolean

4. Who do they bring to the shore to persuade Pauline off the lake?
(a) Father Damien
(b) Napolean
(c) Lulu
(d) Marie

5. What happens whenever Pauline's dressings are changed?
(a) Fleur packs salt in the wounds
(b) She faints
(c) She sees a vision of the Virgin Mary
(d) She loses a layer of skin

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Pauline waiting for on the water?

2. What does Pauline deny being?

3. What job did Nanapush once perform for the government?

4. Where does Pauline travel in her dreams?

5. What do Fleur and Eli know about Pauline?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Fleur gets even following the attack on Nanapush and Margaret.

2. Describe what happens when Fleur and Pauline leave the cabin with the dead baby.

3. What significance is there to Pauline shedding skin every time her bandages are changed?

4. How does Pauline feel about Christ at the start of the chapter?

5. Describe the reception the Pillagers give Pauline.

6. Describe Pauline's reasons for going to Lake Matchimanito one last time. What is her purpose and who is she waiting for?

7. How does the family react to news of the government's fee for their land?

8. Describe how Nanapush and Margaret are captured by Clarence and Lazarre.

9. Describe how Nanapush helps Eli hunt.

10. How does Lulu's decision to run to Nanapush and Margaret show her likeness to her mother?

(see the answer keys)

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