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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 does Tony Loneman call his own face?
2. What word does Orange mention that describes an Indian that supposedly acts white?
3. What word did Dene used to write, or "tag," everywhere he could?
4. What piece of equipment does Dene's uncle leave for him?
5. Who is Edwin's father?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the one main thing that Tony Loneman and Octavio Gomez have in common?
2. What life-altering event happens to Jacquie on Alcatraz?
3. 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?
4. What steps does Edwin Black take in order to try to find his father for the first time?
5. What was the old Cheyenne story in the prologue about?
6. Where does the prologue narrator say the Indian Head image appeared until the late 1970s?
7. According to the prologue narrator, what happened following another shared meal between Indians and colonists in 1623, two years after the land-deal meal?
8. What does the prologue narrator say was the true main purpose of the first meal in 1621 between Indians and colonists that Americans now celebrate and commemorate as Thanksgiving?
9. What happens to Tony when he gets really angry?
10. How does Opal and Jacquie's mother decide to manage her illness when she finds out she has cancer?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does the James Baldwin quote that Orange uses to begin Part III, "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them," mean in the context of what happened to Natives in America from the colonial times to the present day (157)?
Essay Topic 2
Jacquie and Opal's mother had a saying about a spider's web being both a home and a trap. Explain the significance of spiders in There There and what Orange was trying to illustrate with the strange incidence of both Jacquie and Orvil pulling spider legs out of their own bodies.
Essay Topic 3
Opal's mother tells both Opal and Jacquie how important it is for them to always tell their stories, but Opal is opposed to telling the Red Feather boys - her adoptive grandsons - about their Native culture. Opal prefers to let them discover what it means to be Native on their own. Why do you think she chooses this approach, especially since Orvil has expressed such enthusiasm for learning about his heritage?
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