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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 fraction native American is Sean?

2. How long did Sean's brother Mike attend a military academy?

3. How many times has Lony guessed some number Loother had in his head in Chapter 21?

4. What time do Opal and Orvil often go for walks after he is shot?

5. Where does Sean go to high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Sean injured?

2. What type of dog do Opal and Jacquie get Lony, and what is the purpose of the dog?

3. How does Orvil begin to feel about the pills and that he might run out?

4. What are two things that nearly make Jacquie drink again in Chapter 18?

5. How does Lony justify cutting himself?

6. What game do the Red Feather boys make up when they and Opal live in a house up Fruitvale Avenue?

7. How does Jacquie take photos and use them?

8. How did Orvil get shot?

9. How does Orvil start spending his days after a time of staying home because of his bullet wound?

10. Where does Sean spend his first semester of high school, and how does he feel about that?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An attitude developed that Indians needed to be stripped of their heritage and forced to embrace white culture. How and why did the attitude whites had toward Indians and their culture affect the characters in Chapters 1-7?

Essay Topic 2

In Wandering Stars, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the storyline? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? When there is conflict, what role do these flat characters play?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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