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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Rayona and Christine drinking during visiting hours at the hospital?
(a) Wine.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Coka Cola.
(d) Ginger Ale.

2. Where is the Indian reservation Christine grows up on?
(a) Neveda.
(b) Washington.
(c) Idaho.
(d) Montana.

3. What is Lee always very good at?
(a) Rodeo events.
(b) Bible facts.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Indian language.

4. What color are Father Tom's swim trunks?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

5. What kind of car does Christine drive?
(a) Volkswagon.
(b) Cadillac.
(c) Volare.
(d) Dodge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of cigarettes does Christine smoke?

2. What national event upsets Lee deeply?

3. How old is Rayona at the beginning of the novel?

4. Teenage Christine is obsessed with a letter from __________ to Lucy at Fatima.

5. A poster of ____________ is hanging on the wall of Christine's childhood room.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Christine compare her pregnant stomach to a black box?

2. What are some of the daring things Christine does when she is growing up?

3. Why does Christine never have a second child?

4. What kind of relationship does Rayona have with Elgin?

5. What happens when Christine grabs her plastic bags of clothes and runs from Aunt Ida's house?

6. How does Christine act when they bring her into the hospital for her latest drinking binge and she gets her serious diagnosis?

7. Why does Christine ask the doctor for a deck of cards after he gives her the terminal diagnosis?

8. What plan do Clara and Lecon devise to save the family's honor?

9. Why does Father Tom come to see Christine?

10. How does Rayona end up winning a prize at the rodeo?

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