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Literature Section 3 Flashcards

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What were the events of the book Solar Storms inspired by?

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The James Bay Project, Hydro-Quebec’s 1971 controversial hydrodam construction on the La Grande River in northwestern Quebec.

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What does Solar Storms revolve around?

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Environmental concerns and features themes related to Indigenous cultural preservation.

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What is the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement in 1975?

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The first written contract in Canada that explicitly represented the rights of Indigenous peoples.

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When was Solar Storms first published?

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1994

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What type of story is Solar Storms?

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Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age story.

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What time is Solar Storms set in?

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The novel is set in the 1970s

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How is some of the novel written?

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Stream-of-consciousness.

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What does stream-of-consciousness give readers access to in the novel?

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Angel’s innermost thoughts, dreams, and desires, as well as those of her grandmothers.

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In the novel Solar Storms, who dies while approaching Two-Town?

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Agnes

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What gift does Angel inherit from her ancestors?

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The gift of being able to see through water and to dream of medicinal plants.

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How did Angel figure out that Hannah was dying?

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Angel had a dream of Hannah dying.

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Who are the Fat-Eaters?

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A tribe who refers to themselves as The Beautiful People but were renamed by European settlers.

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The controversial Hydrodam in Quebec affected which surrounding communities?

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The dam affected the Cree and Inuit communities.

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Where was Angel born?

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On the border of Canada and Minnesota.

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Angel falls in love with a boy, what is his name?

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Tommy

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What does Angel vow to herself in Chapter Two?

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She vows to never run away from her family.

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Frenchie asks Angel about her scars, how does Angel react?

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She is ashamed and angry, so she breaks the bathroom mirror.

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What do the traditional people of Fur Island believe?

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They believe that water is a spirit that rules their lives, establishing an interconnectedness with the respect for water as they rely on it for survival.

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Who teaches Angel about the history of Fur Island?

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Husk

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What is the problem at Lake Chin in chapter 4?

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Fish have been dying by the hundreds.

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What is the issue with the James Bay project?

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It diverts water, displaces people, compels animal migration, and changes the local climate.

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Who warns the townspeople about the reservoir expansion project in the North country?

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Two young Indian men.

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Who helps Bush, Angel, and Aurora escape the reservoir expansion protests?

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Mr. Orensen

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Why was Fur Island mostly submerged in water?

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The river was moved.

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25
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Who does Angel reunited with and marry?

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Tommy

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Who’s house burned down?

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Tulik

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Who did the police threaten violence against?

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Angel and Dora-Rouge

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Who helped Bush, Angel, and Aurora escape after the baby was teargassed and fell ill?

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Mr. Orensen

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Why does Angel return to Adam’s Rib?

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To find her blood relatives.

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30
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Who is Dora’s relative?

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Tulik

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What mode of transportation does John Husk use to take Angel to Fur island

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A boat

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What weird felling dose Angel feel when nearing Fur Island

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She feels like she’s moving backwards and forwards at the same time

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What covers the Fur Island as Angel gets there

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Bones

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What is special about the river that year

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Its record low and fish appear to be dying at record rates

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Who tells Angel the history of the island when they arrive

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Husk

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Who shows up to take Angel fishing and how dose she feel about it

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LaRue and she is appalled by it

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Who dose Angel begin a friendship with

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Tommy

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In Bush story After Hanna locked Bush out where did Bush find Angel and what was wrong with her

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Angel was silent, turned Blue in the cold and was found in tree branches

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Where does Dora-Rouge want to go and what does she want to do there

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she wants to go home to die

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Who is Ruby afraid of leaving the baby with

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Hannah

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What dose Dora-Rouge call Angel because of her weird dreams

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a “plant dreamer.”

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What type of magazine dose Husk read

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a science one

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What theory dose Husk come up with after reading the magazine

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That Angel and Dora-Rouge live in the past, present, and future all at the same time

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What animal does Angel see slowly get stalked and killed by a pack of wolfs

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Moose

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What scientist does Husk use to show his theory about the islanders

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Albert Einstein

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The traditional people of Fur Island believe what is a spirit that rules their lives

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Water

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What are the “primary components of the environment” in many Indian lives

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sky, ground, subterranean realm, waters, atmospheric processes, plants, animals, & more

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When Angel arrives to Bush’s home, what is Bush doing?

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collecting bones & putting them in the museum

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Angel shows herself opening to the natural world by doing what in her bedroom?

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Opening her windows while she sleeps to allow the elements to come in.

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Chapter 5 is a short chapter, consisting of mostly what

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questions

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51
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Angel learns from her elders that the world of nature & the world of humans is…

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One in the same

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52
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Dora-Rouge & husk describe the land as populated by primarily…

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Love

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53
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Chapter 6 is primarily focused on…

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“Intergenerational trauma, memory, & suffering

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54
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“The Power of Song” is able to…

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help to heal

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During a particularly harsh winter, Hannah had cut all of her hair & what had happened to baby Angel?

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She went missing. she was “Silent & blue in the branches of a tree”

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What is Angels half sisters name?

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Henriet

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57
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Why would Angels half sister scar herself?

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to show how she could’nt be harmed from the outside in.

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Winter in Chapter 9 is described as…

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“filling in the world, like a scar”

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Angel recognizes that she is made of broken parts that want to become whole, like…

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the Island

60
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Whose house is burnt down by the worker in chapter 19?

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The workers burn down Tulik’s house, and many things are lost.

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At what age was Angel placed in foster care?

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She was placed in foster care at the age of five after her mother, Hannah Wing, physically abused her.

62
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Who does Angel think of when she steals food from worker in chapter 19 (who is she trying to replicate)?

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Angel thinks of Wolverine and steals some food from the workers.

63
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Whose dogs are shot at in chapter 19?

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Mr. Orsen’s dogs

64
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What place does Aurora get help at for her sickness in chapter 19?

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Chinobe

65
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T/F. Bush notices LaRue is a changed man in chapter 20.

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True

66
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How was Dora Rouge’s death?

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Dora-Rouge dies softly in the place to which she has wheeled herself among the moss and trees that survived the flood.

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In what chapter do Tommy and Angel marry?

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Chapter 21

68
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Where was Angel born?

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Adam’s Rib

69
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How was Angel’s childhood?

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Angel has spent her childhood moving from one foster home to the next, feeling unwanted and unable to connect with anyone due to her circumstances.

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What is Dora Rouge’s relationship to Angel?

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She is Angel’s great-great-grandmother

71
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What is the named of Dora-Rouge’s late husband?

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Luther

72
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What was the previous name of the Fat-Eaters and why did it change?

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It was The Beautiful People. It was changed to the Fat-Eaters by European colonizers upon their arrival in Canada.

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In what river does Dora-Rouge have to make a pact to cross it because is too dangerous?

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When the Se Nay River becomes too dangerous to pass, Dora-Rouge makes a compact with the water that allows the women to survive.

74
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Who’s Agnes’ love interest?

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Agnes and John Husk have a romantic relationship.

75
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Who is Angel’s mother?

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Hannah Wing

76
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Why does Angel decide to return to her birthplace?

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to reunite with her mother

77
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Why does Angel steal from her foster homes?

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to replace missing affection

78
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Why does Dora-Rouge accompany Bush and Angel?

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to return to her homeland

79
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Who does Dora-Rouge meet when they reach the north?

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Tulik

80
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Which animal does Agnes befriend as a child?

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a glacier bear

81
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What does Agnes ask Angel to do after she died?

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give her body to the animals

82
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Who takes in Hannah and tries to help her?

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Bush

83
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Who helps Angel bury Hannah?

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Bush

84
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Where is Bush originally from?

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Oklahoma

85
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What is Loretta’s signature scent?

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almonds

86
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What does Angel realize about Loretta and her mother’s almond scent?

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it’s reminiscent of cyanide

87
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What was Loretta’s Tribe called?

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Elk Islander

88
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What animal carcass was Loretta’s tribe forced to eat?

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Deer

89
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What happened after the tribe ate the deer carcasses?

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they all died of poisoning, except Loretta

90
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Solar Storms emphasizes the danger of viewing the land in what way?.

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primarily as an extractable resource

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Dora-Rouge and Angel recognize this mentality as what?

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a self-imposed “forgetting” of how to live in the world

92
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What did the Indians consider allies?

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animals, trees, fishhooks, and hammers,

93
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How do dam workers view the land (act on it)?

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subdue it rather than form symbiotic connections with it.

94
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What prompts them to see Indigenous cultures as ignorant or backward?

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same lack of understanding

95
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What is used as an excuse to strip indigenous people of their land?

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they believe that they are ignorant or backward

96
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What does Hannah Wing and Angel have in common?

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they were both removed from their families,

97
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What do dam supporters not recognize?

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either Indigenous nations or the land itself as inextricably linked to human and global survival.

98
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What do the state of their indigenous people bodies mirror?

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mirrors various traumas experienced by the land and animals

99
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Who ignore the fact that rerouting the water poses significant risks to the environment and to the people of Sovereign Nations.

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The dam builders, police, soldiers, and corporations involved in the project

100
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True or False: people were being rewarded for doing action that could damage the environment

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True

101
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What did the men want to build?

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hydroelectric dam

102
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The people who wanted the dam built wanted to do what with it?

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control the water

103
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Controlling the water means to control over what 2 things?

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the population, incorporating the Tribal communities

104
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What do the dark, brown, dreary houses in a line in a place named Poison serve as reminders for? (Angel empathizes with this place but she had felt sorry to come home to)

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reminders of the intergenerational trauma absorbed by the people who dwell in them

105
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Describe the ecological mindset that Angel had that helped heal her (along with her immersion in nature)? (Hint: What does Linda Hogan try to encourage the reader to see through Angel’s perspective?)

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home as more than a house so that we too may equate the planet’s healing with our own

106
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In Solar Storms, Hogan describes indigenous people who are scarred, tired, vacant, drowned, and/or dead to mirror what other traumas?

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the traumas experienced by the land and animals as they feel the devastating impacts of the dam construction

107
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How does the construction of a dam allow for tribal communities to be controlled without their consent?

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controlling the water leads to control over the population which incorporates the tribal communities into the ‘progress’ of the developed world despite the communities not consenting

108
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How are Hannah’s scars and the effect of the government/corporate control of water related?

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her scars mirror the physical and emotional toll that the governmental and corporate control of water as the construction of the dam has a damaging impact on ecosystems

109
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Why does Hannah experience a sense of landless or the inability to belong?

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because of her mixed blood status (Anglo and Native cultures that seem to collide) and early separation from her family

110
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The scars on Hannah’s body leave tributaries on her skin and map her displaced body similar to how one might mark…

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map of conquered land

111
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How is Angel able to overcome the generational trauma and the fracturing of Hannah’s psyche (and potentially her own)?

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when she experiences a spiritual connection with the land during her boat trip with Dora-Rouge

112
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How does Angel’s healing incorporate the idea of “mother earth” as a protective, restorative force?

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1). because Angel must literally find herself in the woods when she becomes lost and on the water 2). in order to make her psyche whole (rather than continue the traumatic loss of her mother and mothers before her), she must come to recognize her face in the face of the rock cliff and make a spiritual leap in a dream state outside of time in the wilderness

113
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True or False? The icy landscape of the Minnesota/Canada border reflects an immense freedom and spirituality that the intervening government can provided

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False, the intervening government systems that is bent on technological progress cannot provide

114
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Describe the conditions at Holy Strig Tow (the women arrive there after Agnes’ death)

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It is devastating to see: the islands near the outpost have become mudflats due to their rivers being diverted, rotting fish/vegetation cover the land, and a moose sinks to its death in a mire

115
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What does Dora-Rouge believe is a form of home?

A

protesting. She wants to bring back hope through kinship and connection

116
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What does Hogan’s depiction of Angel during and after the protest suggest?

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that renewal of the land is possible

117
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What name do the Fat-Eaters take (rejecting the name given to them by others)?

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The Beautiful People

118
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Solar Storms is LEAST interested in exploring indigenous worldviews about?

A

urban life

119
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What is NOT a reason the main characters undertake the long journey in Solar Storms?

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to find a lost family member

120
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What does Solar Storms link?

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family history and planetary health

121
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Linda Hogan most compares with the fractured land in Solar Storms to

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fractured communities

122
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Which of the following depictions of “sagging, drooping buildings and electric poles swallowed by land, son after their installation” MOST critique?

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land ownership

123
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How long has Angel been apart from her mother when she returns with her great-grandmother?

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12 years

124
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What people “trapped themselves inside their own destruction” according to Dora-Rouge?

A

European settlers

125
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What word BEST describes the relationship between Indigenous tribes and their land?

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symbiotic

126
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What Indigenous resource have the dam builders paved over in Solar Storms?

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whitefish breeding grounds

127
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What metaphor does Angel use to describe the situation in the Fat-Eater’s territory near the end of Solar Storms?

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murder of the soul

128
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What excuse or explanation do the dam workers make when they strip the Indigenous territories for profit?

A

indigenous cultures are ignorant and backward

129
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What do the dam builders in Solar Storms want to do MOST with the water in the dam?

A

make electricity

130
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Many schools of literary criticism provide ways of understanding the text. What do Critics use to talk about Literature, Art, and Culture?

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Critics use Literary theories

131
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What longstanding set of Philosophies emerged alongside the 1980s Environmental Justice Movement?

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Marxism, Feminism, Conservationism, and Animal Rights

132
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What are the two most critical principles to our understanding of ecocriticism?

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  1. The activists nature that seeks fair distribution and disposal of resources. 2. Social Sciences’ commitment to legal and policy change to protect people along with resources
133
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Before the focus on Justice who were the main representatives in environmentalism?

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White Males who overlooked the effects of environmental issues on Marginalized communities

134
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Who were the Marginalized communities White men overlooked?

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Native Americans, Women, People of Color

135
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What are two works that Eccritics used to reframe the environmental movement’s focus? Include the title, author name, and year

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Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” (1970) and Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony” (1977)

136
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The mid-1990s had the issue of the environmental movement’s reframe being bridged by the inclusion of women and black communities . Who are two examples of eccritics interested in representing a diversity of voices and experiences.

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Greta Gaard and Cheryl Glotfelty

137
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In addition to Social and political positions. What are other works of literature ecocriticism explores?

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Philosophical, Spiritual, Psychological, and Aesthetic aspects

138
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What does the first wave ecocriticism focus on?

A

Defining and Describing a tradition of nature writing.

139
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What are two examples of works that advocated for cultural shifts away from anthropocentrism?

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Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitare” A season in the Wilderness” and Gary Snyder’s “Turtle Island”

140
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What does 1996 “The Ecocriticism Reader” by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm outline?

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The beginnings of ecocriticism from its early iterations in nature writing. It does this through Second-Wave developments such as, Social justice issues, ecology, and Literature

141
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Since 1996 Ecocriticism has evolved to deal with more critical matters. List these matters and who explains it in his 2005 book, “The Future of Environmental Criticism”

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The matters include: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality. Lawrence Buell explains this

142
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What do second-wave eccritics, such as Lawrence Buell, argue and why?

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Environmental Studies should include both traditional notions of nature along with urban spaces, because this allows greater attention to topics such as toxic waste, indigenous land rights, ecological racism, and ecofeminism.

143
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What is Ecofeminism?

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philosophy that emphasized the way both nature and women are treated by male-centered society

144
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What is one of the Major Themes in Solar Storms?

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The relationship between the environment and settler colonialism

145
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What is an example of an ecofeminist reading of Solar Storms?

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The way one looks at the government and BEEVCO company in contrast to the female protagonists

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