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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 are Cassidy and Gabe doing together at night in Part III?
2. What does Cassidy keep in his thermos with the cash?
3. What sport is Gabe's daughter good at?
4. Who does Gabriel think he sees on the side of the road by the school in Part III?
5. Whose grave does Gabe visit in Part III?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gabe take from his father's house in Part III?
2. Who does Cassidy shoot in Part IV, and why?
3. What does Denorah see in Gabe's truck when he comes to see her in Part III?
4. What does Jo tell Cassidy in Part IV about her leaving town the next day?
5. What signs start to unsettle Gabe when he leaves the sweat lodge in Part IV?
6. Who does Denorah see outside her eighth-grade geography window in Part III, and why is that person there?
7. What does Gabe tell Denorah in Part III that she does not know whether or not is a compiment?
8. Why does Gabe suddenly leave the sweat lodge in Part IV?
9. How does Nathan Yellow Tail feel about the sweat ceremony?
10. Why does Gabe go to see Denorah right before the sweat ceremony?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Jones decides to tell the climactic events of the Elk Spirit's confrontation with Denorah from the point of view of an elderly tribal storyteller at the end of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.
Essay Topic 2
How does the Elk Spirit seem to use the four friends' weaknesses against them all? What are some of those weaknesses? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Although they make light of it at first, eventually Gabe and Cassidy both settle into the ritual of the sweat lodge. How would you describe these two characters' feelings about the ritual? Write an essay explaining your answers.
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