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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 kind of car does Davan drive?

2. Why does Elsie ultimately force her husband’s guest(s) to leave?

3. What does Lonny take from near Faye’s garden?

4. What household item was a point of contention between Faye’s mother and father?

5. What gift do Anaquot and Ziigwan’aage make together for Simon Jack?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Faye describe her home neighborhood?

2. Why does Old Shaawano decide to stop using the drum to heal others?

3. What is Faye’s relationship to the Tatro family?

4. How does the Eykes’ dog finally escape?

5. How does Anaquot learn she is in danger at Simon Jack’s house?

6. What does Faye refer to as the “chain of events […] on Revival Road (65)?

7. What is Bernard’s first impression of Faye and Elsie?

8. Why does Old Shaawano choose to confide in Geeshik?

9. How does Kendra die?

10. What does Faye remember about her father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does survivor’s guilt play in the novel? How do different characters handle their survivor’s guilt in different ways? Do they ultimately overcome this guilt, or learn to live with it?

Essay Topic 2

What do wolves symbolize in the novel? Do they mean different things to different people? What lessons do the wolves offer the reader?

Essay Topic 3

How does the painted drum ultimately bring Bernard’s community back together? What did its loss symbolize to the people, and what have they gained through its restoration? Why do you think it needed to be returned before the community could fully reconnect?

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