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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. Who is the small, dark, gentle Indian woman who makes a living cleaning houses for people in Ada?
2. At what time does Ward finish his polygraph test?
3. Jesse Ward dies from __________.
4. Which of the two defendants, Ward and Fontenot, does Karen Wise positively identify in Chapter 7?
5. Who administers Ward's polygraph test?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 8, how does Bud Wolf feel after he begins to recall the times that he and Tommy Ward had shared?
2. Describe Debbie Carter's murder case as describe by the narrator.
3. What alibi does Tommy Ward give to police in Chapter 2 about his whereabouts the night Denice Haraway went missing?
4. Who are the first three characters introduced to the reader in Chapter 1?
5. Describe Denice Haraway as depicted on the missing person flier.
6. Why are there no spectators at the March hearing of the State of Oklahoma versus Ward / Fontenot?
7. Describe the character of Jannette Roberts. Why are detectives interested in speaking with her in Chapter 3?
8. What two things are District Attorney Bill Peterson trying to establish through the four young witnesses who are a part of Ada's "running crowd"?
9. Discuss the spectators who watch the trials going on in the courthouse, as described by the narrator in Chapter 7.
10. In Chapter 3, what alibi does Tommy Ward give detectives for the day Denice Haraway? Is this the same story he had given to detectives the first time he was questioned? Explain.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
By researching the jury selecting process of the Oklahoma State Justice Department in today's society, write an essay comparing and contrasting the jury selection of today's society to that of the jury selection of the Haraway murder case. Justify your answer by using specific examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Authors sometime highlight the values of a society by using characters who are alienated from the society because of gender, race, class, or creed. Choose a character from the novel who plays a significant role and show how that character's alienation reveals the surrounding society's assumptions or moral values.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the issue of justice and its role in society as related in The Dreams of Ada.
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