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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 Thomas do with the bat that gets trapped in the Indian Center?

2. What does Opal text Jacquie to tell her about Orvil?

3. Who is responsible for the deaths of Octavio's mother and brother?

4. What is Harvey's role at the powwow?

5. What does Octavio call Charles and Carlos?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the circumstances around Thomas's firing?

2. Why does Octavio's grandmother Josefina think her own father cursed her?

3. Why does Orange suggest Opal has developed superstitious behaviors?

4. How does Calvin Johnson get pulled into the plot to rob the Big Oakland Powwow?

5. How does Bill Davis feel about Edwin Black?

6. What pivotal person from Jacquie's past does she meet in Phoenix and how does she meet him?

7. What bizarre story does Harvey tell Jacquie as they drive together from Phoenix to Oakland?

8. What story does Orvil tell Dene Oxendene for his video storytelling project?

9. What is Daniel Gonzales's role in the robbery of the Big Oakland Powwow?

10. Why did Opal and Jacquie leave Ronald's house as young girls?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Orange deals with traumatic subjects and themes but he includes moments of levity as well. Analyze how Orange uses humor as a device to develop characters and underscore more serious themes.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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