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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 Scarface's role in the community?

2. Who frequently recites numbers?

3. Who is the eldest Loewen woman?

4. According to Ona, what animals did she see playing?

5. Who organized the meeting between the women?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who will decide what the women do?

2. What resulted from the initial vote among women?

3. Why did August come back to the colony?

4. How were the men discovered as the attackers?

5. What will the "Do Nothing" women do?

6. What images did the women draw, and why?

7. What was the aftermath of learning who was assaulting the women?

8. According to Peters, why were the women attacked?

9. Why was Ona a target for the rapists?

10. What were the circumstances of Mina's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Speculate on the future of the characters and the community after the end of the novel. What does the act of talking set in motion for them?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Toews chose August as the narrator of this story? What perspective does he add to the novel?

Essay Topic 3

How do the women confront their own religious beliefs in this story? What evidence do you have of a change in the women's beliefs? What evidence do you see that their beliefs remain the same?

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