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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. Which famous writer does the hipster Rob quote to Dene as he is waiting to go in to his grant interview?
2. What word does Orange mention that describes an Indian that supposedly acts white?
3. What is the name of the public transport train system in Oakland that Tony Loneman routinely rides?
4. Who is Tony Loneman's grandmother?
5. Why does Octavio ask Tony Loneman about powwows he has been to?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield's mother take she and her half-sister Jacquie after they abruptly move out of the yellow house in Oakland?
2. What is the one main thing that Tony Loneman and Octavio Gomez have in common?
3. How does Opal and Jacquie's mother decide to manage her illness when she finds out she has cancer?
4. What was the old Cheyenne story in the prologue about?
5. What does "the Drome" mean to Tony Loneman?
6. Orange opens the prologue with a Bertolt Brecht poem about singing in dark times. How is this poem relevant to Native history as Orange writes about it in There There?
7. What are some of the media representations of Indians that are mentioned critically in the prologue?
8. How would you describe Edwin's relationship with his mother, Karen?
9. What did the colonists do to the Pequot at the Green Corn Dance in 1637?
10. Where does the prologue narrator say the Indian Head image appeared until the late 1970s?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the relationship between the book's prologue section and Dene Oxendene's vision for his storytelling project? In what ways could Dene's project be viewed as a response to the prologue narrator's views on the problems inherent in the historical representations of Natives in America?
Essay Topic 2
Orange uses the present tense in many sections of There There. What effect does this achieve in terms of character development and plot advancement? Use specific examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Calvin and Orvil are two characters who share an absence of a feeling of heritage or a sense of real history of their Native culture. For each of these characters, which is the more important part of being Native - a bloodline, or a sense of learned culture?
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