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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 food is mentioned in the prologue as Native but not traditional?
2. What does Dene NOT have that he feels might hurt him in his grant interview?
3. Why does Octavio ask Tony Loneman about powwows he has been to?
4. In the old Cheyenne folktale about the rolling head, what creature does the husband find his wife with?
5. Who is the author of the poem that begins the prologue section?
Short Essay Questions
1. What steps does Edwin Black take in order to try to find his father for the first time?
2. What happened to Metacomet, the Wampanoag Indian Chief?
3. 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?
4. What was the first novel written by a Native person about?
5. What does "the Drome" mean to Tony Loneman?
6. According to the prologue narrator, what happened following another shared meal between Indians and colonists in 1623, two years after the land-deal meal?
7. What was the old Cheyenne story in the prologue about?
8. What did the colonists do to the Pequot at the Green Corn Dance in 1637?
9. Who is Dene Oxendene's inspiration for his video storytelling project on Natives?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Tony Loneman's struggle with "The Drome" exemplify the general Native struggle with alcohol addiction?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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)?
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