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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. What national event upsets Lee deeply?
(a) Kent State riots.
(b) Bombing of Hiroshima.
(c) JFK's assignation.
(d) Pearl Harbor.

2. What is the name of only guy on the state park staff who is nice to Rayona?
(a) Norman.
(b) Andy.
(c) John.
(d) Dave.

3. What does Christine use to break into her car?
(a) Hammer.
(b) Credit card.
(c) Wire hanger.
(d) Locksmith.

4. What does Christine use to help her to convince Dayton that Lee needs to enlist?
(a) Tribal election flyer.
(b) Compromising photos.
(c) Threats.
(d) Money.

5. Christine tells the manager at Video Village that she is engaged to which movie star?
(a) Robert Redford.
(b) Dustin Hoffman.
(c) Paul Newman.
(d) Burt Reynolds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dayton's draft classification?

2. What does Rayona get for the "hard luck" prize?

3. What does Elgin do for a living?

4. Where is the last place Christine sees Lee before he goes to Vietnam?

5. Aunt Ida tells Christine that she should leave the reservation and become what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Christine discover about Dayton?

2. What is the time period of the novel when it switches to Christine's point of view?

3. What is Dayton's house like?

4. Why does Clara come to visit when Christine is four-years-old?

5. How does it go when Aunt Ida comes to dinner at Dayton's house?

6. What happens between Father Tom and Rayona on the yellow raft in the lake at Bear Paw State Park?

7. Why is Rayona so fascinated by the lifeguard Ellen?

8. Why does Christine ask the doctor for a deck of cards after he gives her the terminal diagnosis?

9. What happens when Christine grabs her plastic bags of clothes and runs from Aunt Ida's house?

10. Why is Christine in the hospital at the beginning of the novel?

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