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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 did Jude Star and a boy eat after they escaped the massacre at Sand Creek?

2. What Indian tribe did Hannah live with when she was a child?

3. How does Victoria's adoptive mother die?

4. When Charles Star wrote Pratt to find out information about his father, where was Charles living?

5. At the end of Chapter 4, what was the ceremony for that Jude had to miss after he captured agents about to break up the ceremony?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the father of Victoria's first child, and how does she meet him?

2. How did Jude get his name?

3. Why was Jude late for a ceremony to help cure Bear Shield's wife?

4. Why was Charles Star sent to Carlisle?

5. What did Pratt remember about a train ride in 1875?

6. How is Charles shot?

7. Who raised Victoria?

8. Who participated in an inaugural parade for Roosevelt?

9. How did Charles become addicted to laudanum?

10. How did Opal come to work in Oakland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jude was a survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre. How and why did the massacre change his life?

Essay Topic 2

Victoria is raised by a white man and woman. How is Victoria affected by her upbringing in a white family, and how does she respond when she learns her birth parents were Indian?

Essay Topic 3

Metaphors and similes are figures of speech that are used to make comparisons between things. Metaphors seem to imply an equal comparison, while similes seem to imply a similarity between two things. Does Orange use more metaphors or similes in Wandering Stars? How does the use of metaphors or similes help readers comprehend concepts? How does the use of metaphors or similes help make the story more interesting?

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