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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. How does Pauline hurt her hands?
(a) Pauline cuts them with glass
(b) Fleur cuts them with a knife
(c) She puts them in boiling water
(d) Nanapush whips her

2. What does Margaret suggest as a means to save the Pillager land?
(a) Selling Nanapush's land
(b) Working for the lumberjacks
(c) Capturing the lake man
(d) Selling cranberry bark to a tonic dealer

3. Who interrupts Nanapush's healing ceremony for Fleur?
(a) The white doctor
(b) Pauline
(c) Eli
(d) Father Damien

4. Where does the man tell Pauline he will meet her?
(a) At the bottom of the lake
(b) In the desert
(c) In hell
(d) In heaven

5. What does Fleur place in the tree above the box containing her dead baby?
(a) Lake weeds
(b) A charm from Moses
(c) A cross
(d) Her black umbrella

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the Pillager baldness?

2. What is the poison that afflicts the reservation?

3. What makes Eli Nanapush's relative?

4. What is Pauline wearing when her boat comes to shore?

5. Who takes Fleur's second baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the transformation Fleur makes after the baby's death.

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

3. How does Nanapush try to save Pauline just as he saved Fleur and Lulu?

4. Describe what happens when Fleur's baby tries to come early.

5. Why does Pauline panic when she and Fleur travel to the land of the dead?

6. Describe the curing ceremony and the excitement that interrupts it.

7. Describe how Nanapush helps Eli hunt.

8. Why do you think Pauline is happy about the Indians losing their lands?

9. Name the unusual penances Pauline imposes on herself. Why does she do these things to herself?

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

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