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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 is wrong with the bear?

2. What does Bernadette give to Pauline to help with her dreams?

3. What does Pukwan do to the Pillager house?

4. Who names Fleur's child?

5. How is Russell related to Pauline?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss why Fleur and Nanapush do not utter the names of the dead.

2. Describe the storm that flattens most of Argus.

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

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

5. Discuss Pukwan Sr.'s fear and frustration at Fleur's cabin.

6. Describe what causes Nanapush and Fleur to go a little windigo.

7. Pauline is intrigued by Fleur's effect on men from the first time they meet. How does Pauline interact with men?

8. Describe how Nanapush saves Moses from the sickness.

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

10. Explain the relationship between Fleur and Nanapush.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Eli hunting the moose and Nanapush's "help." What sort of help does Nanapush offer Eli? How is this help similar to the help Nanapush gave Eli while trying to court Fleur?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the degradation of the land by the lumberjacks. How is their rape of the land symbolic?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the difficulties of introducing a new religion, like Christianity, into a long standing religion centered on cultural traditions.

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