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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 Geraldine's clan?

2. What is Linda Wishkob's favorite food?

3. What clan does Joe's father belong to?

4. How far out in the lake was the gas can that Joe found and that he shows his father in Chapter 5?

5. What color hair does Father Travis have?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Joe's great-aunt saved by a turtle?

2. What do Joe and his father plant in the flower beds?

3. How does Linda make her banana bread?

4. What does Father Travis remember about the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated?

5. Why does Special Agent Bjerke try to speak with Geraldine in Chapter 8?

6. Why does Bazil have no choice but to talk to Joe about his mother's attack in Chapter 6?

7. How does Clemence dress to clean the church?

8. What does Joe say about people buried in the cemetery?

9. Why did Linda's mother contact her?

10. What does Joe find in the Lake in Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Joe steals a rifle. Why does Joe steal a rifle? What does he hope to gain by killing Lark? What does Joe later learn about Mayla’s body? Is the death of Lark necessary to allow Joe’s family to live in peace? What are Joe's thoughts about what he has done?

Essay Topic 2

Linda Wishkob was abandoned by her birth family and raised by an Indian family. What difficulties did Linda have to overcome throughout her life? How did these difficulties forge her character and make her the type of person she came to be?

Essay Topic 3

Geraldine’s job is about secrets. What is Geraldine’s job and what does it have to do with secrets? Why is her job the cause of her attack?

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