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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. Where does Christine work after she graduates from high school?

2. What is the town that Christine goes to with different men from the reservation?

3. Before Rayona can catch up with her mother, as she flees Aunt Ida's, Christine rides away in what?

4. What is the name of the group the priests want Rayona to join?

5. Christine and her friends watch what show on the TV set at the Teen Snack Bar?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Christine do for Rayona that she thinks proves she is a good mother?

2. What is Ida's relationship like with Willard Pretty Dog?

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

4. What does Christine tell Dayton that makes Lee very angry with her?

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

6. What is Rayona's life like?

7. Why does Babe give Rayona a hard time getting her back into the truck when they come to take her home from the stud farm?

8. Why doesn't Ida want Willard to continue living with her after his face is repaired?

9. What is Dayton and Lee's relationship like?

10. What is Christine surprised to be missing the first morning Rayona is in Dayton's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Aunt Ida mean when she says, "I never grow up, but I get old."? How is this also true in some ways for both Christine and Rayona?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of ethnic identity throughout the novel in relation to the following characters: Rayona, Christine, Aunt Ida and Lee.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Dorris uses Christine as the middle ground, the bridge between old stories and new beginnings, both literally and figuratively.

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