8-10 Flashcards
(193 cards)
1
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How did people in the north measure their lives?
A
By the winters
2
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At the beginning of Chapter 8, what was missing during some winters in “The House of No”?
A
Wolves, ptarmigan, children
3
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What do they call the winter of frozen rain that killed animals?
A
The time of shadows
4
Q
What was found frozen inside a block of clear ice?
A
A woman
5
Q
Why did the man turn to ice?
A
Certain currents of air met near the water
6
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What month was Angela born?
A
February
7
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How deep was the snow when Angela was born?
A
It collapsed the roofs of houses
8
Q
What did Angela say she crossed to come to live?
A
Infinity
9
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Angela said she arrived from…
A
an angry, screaming woman, where the storms were created, where bad medicine was made from bodies, deer milk, and lost land, the place wehre traders passed with dead animals
10
Q
Who said Angela was born in a house of snow?
A
Bush
11
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What did the white men believe during that winter?
A
It was a total eclipse
12
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What did the midwife claim during Angela’s birth?
A
That she could hear her crying from inside the womb
13
Q
What made everyone think of gunfire?
A
The shattering trees
14
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Who was not afraid of the sound of gunfire?
A
Hannah
15
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What was the name of the midwife?
A
Ruby Shawl
16
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How is Ruby Shawl described?
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Red headscarf, perfect hands, peaceful face
17
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What kind of house does Hannah live in?
A
A one-room house she shared with a trapper
18
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Why was February a busy time for trappers?
A
The furs were at their thickest
19
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What did Ruby Shawl not say to Hannah that she told other mothers?
A
Say good-bye to your baby.
20
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Why did Ruby Shawl decide not to go out and clear the roof of snow?
A
She was afraid Hannah would hurt Angela
21
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Who avoided sleep the first few days of Angela’s live?
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Ruby Shawl
22
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Which of Hannah’s faculties abandoned Angela in the first few days of her life?
A
Mind, heart, and body
23
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What scratched about in corners and inside the walls?
A
Mice
24
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What happened when Ruby Shawl went to shovel the snow off of the roof?
A
Hannah locked her out
25
Where did Bush live when Angela was born?
Old Fish Hook
26
How far did Ruby Shawl have to walk to get to Bush's house?
Not quite a mile
27
How are Hannah's and the winter's beauty similar?
They are both dangerous
28
What was Bush using to protect herself from the storm when Ruby Shawl arrived?
A dark blue umbrella
29
How did Bush injure herself on the way back to Hannah's?
She fell on a strip of glare ice and bruised her thigh
30
What did Hannah say when Bush came into the house?
She's not my baby. My baby died at birth.
31
What were like ghosts speaking themselves into existence?
The women's cold breath
32
What is Hannah's hearing compared to?
An animal, a lynx or wolf
33
What did Hannah do to herself while Ruby was getting Bush?
She cut off her hair
34
Where did Bush finally find Angela?
Tucked into the branches of a birch tree
35
What do American Indians call snow that meant more would come?
Pollen snow
36
What stood still in winter?
Living
37
What holds tragedy in both its hands and has a stronger will than humans?
Winter
38
Who is Joppa Ryan?
Tommy's cousin at Old Fish Hook
39
How did Joppa Ryan die?
He was killed by a tire jack in the ice
40
What happened to Helene, Frenchie's daugher?
She walked off drunk across the lake and disappeared in the Hungy Mouth
41
What waits for spring?
Tears and grief
42
Who says she should have been the one to die?
Dora-Rouge
43
What surrounds the shed on Bush's property?
A pack of wolves
44
What made up the many voices of winter?
Wolves, crows, wind, lake ice
45
Angela thought of all of the following things lost in Lake Grand...
jewelry, wedding rings, boats, fishermen, Helene
46
What did Bush want Angela to know about Hannah?
She was possessed by a force as reas as wind, strong as ice, common as winter
47
Who drives an enormous truck over the ice to make deliveries to Bush and Angela?
John Husk
48
What does John Husk deliver?
Groceries, heating oil, gas, wood, cookies
49
Who else visits?
Tommy
50
What does Tommy bring when he visits?
Deer or moose meat
51
What wrote stories that Angela couldn't yet decipher?
Animal tracks
52
During winter, what does Angela say she barely remembers?
The vines growing in the windows, heat, growing corn, and green moss
53
What is being circled by a pack of wolves?
A solitary cow moose
54
What does Bush compare winter to?
A wound healing
55
What will Bush not say about Hannah?
She has an ice heart
56
What secret does Angela keep about finding her family?
She has a younger sister named Henriet
57
How much does Angela steal to pay to find her sister?
Fifty dollars
58
Why does Angela think it is okay to keep this secret?
Because Agnes is not related to Henriet
59
Why is Henriet covered in scars?
She cuts herself
60
What does Angela plan on giving Henriet when they meet, but later replaces the gift with cash?
A bracelet that had sharp edges
61
What tribe can Angela hear speaking?
The tribe of water
62
What type of destiny does Angela believe she was born into?
A destiny of death and survival
63
What animals does Angela dream of on long dark nights?
Marten, beaver, wolverine
64
What did the women who looked like Angela carry with them?
Pictures of Mary and Jesus, mirrors
65
Who was sold into sickness and prostitution?
Loretta Wing
66
What do Angela and Bush sew besides shirts? Skirts
67
What do the women use to create their patterns?
Newspaper
68
What do the women hear in the silence when they have to go out and close the shed?
The northern lights, ice crystals charge by solar storms
69
What does Angela dream of, sketch, and show Dora-Rouge?
A plant that grows above them
70
What does Dora-Rouge says were always there?
Plant dreamers
71
Who says she can see with her skin and touch with her eyes?
Angela
72
What does John Husk relay that could explain Angela's and Dora-Rouge's visions?
They were made from stars and Einstein's theory of time
73
Who killed Raymond Yellow Thunder?
God-fearing, God-loving men and their wives in a VFW lodge in Nebraska
74
Why does Bush plan to travel north by canoe?
There will be road blocks in the spring
75
Where does Hannah live?
Ohete or New Hardy
76
What does Bush spend hours doing when not sewing or reconstructing a badger for LaRue?
Planning the route north
77
What does Bush call this plan?
Our secret
78
What does Angela call Bush when she is making lists?
Marco Polo
79
What will they need to take in the canoe?
An ax, a little saw, cooking pans, dry wood, Sterno
80
Leaving at the beginning of the year means encountering swarms of what?
Blackflies and mosquitos
81
What is Angela's fear when thinking about the trip?
They will be lost and have no way to get their bearings
82
What two words does Angela use to describe the strange waters they will be travelling?
Whimsical and frightening
83
Why does Bush think the map is from the 1600s-1700s?
There were no northern lights then
84
What did the tribes come down with back then?
The breathing illness, the spotted diseas, and the invastion of French fur traders
85
Although history could be told by looking at the maps, what is missing?
The people, the animal lives, the clay of the land, the water, the carnage
86
When Bush breaks a long silence, she is laughing at...
the ignorance of Europeans
87
Which animal has changed the land?
Beavers
88
How did beavers change the land?
Dams, meadows created, young trees grew, deer and moose came
89
How does Bush occupy her time when she leaves the house?
Ice fishing
90
How does one cut a hole in the ice for ice fishing?
An auger
91
Who has filled Angela's head full of knowledge and stories?
Bush and John Husk
92
Where did people once believe birds migrated to during winter?
The moon
93
Why are birds happy to return in spring?
They get to see which of the people had lived or died during the winter
94
What does Angela realize about her early relationship with Hannah?
She was the only thing Hannah had to barter for her place in the world, for kindness, for money, etc.
95
How is Bush's view of scars different from others'?
She sees them as signs of healing instead of signs of wounding
96
In Chapter 9, who asks Angela about her scars?
Tommy
97
How does the world sparkle in the short hours of daylight?
Like precious stones
98
In late January, what birds begun their mating songs?
The owls
99
According to Angela, what is the worst thing about love?
Passionate foolishness
100
What shirt is Tommy wearing when he helps bring in the wood?
The shirt that Angela made with the bright green ribbons
101
What does Tommy do when Angela tries to smooth down his hair?
He kisses her hand
102
How many new shirts did Angela show Tommy?
Ten
103
What were the boys Angela knew before interested in?
Cars, rock-and-roll music, ball games, and girls
104
Why is Tommy different from the other boys?
He was a provider already
105
When Angela and Tommy go to the mainland, what does Bush want them to bring back?
An old map from LaRue
106
Where does Angela sell her shirts?
Tinselman's
107
What does Bush like but will not buy for herself?
Coke
108
What did Angela buy at Tinselman's?
Flour, instant coffee, two cokes, jasmin soap, Pet Milk
109
What gives Angela a shoulder ache?
Pulling a loaded sled
110
In the mornings, who does Angela crawl into bed with?
Dora-Rouge
111
How were decisions made in the older times, according to Dora-Rouge?
Through dreams
112
What did Angela dream about in Chapter 9?
Of islands with moss-covered ruins and stones
113
Who does Agnes accuse of snoring something fierce?
John Husk
114
Why does Angela say Bush does not come to Agnes's house?
She is busy sewing
115
What kind of sisterhood does Angela say she, Agnes and Bush are a part of?
A sisterhood of bad backs
116
Why doesn't Angela say that Bush is spending her time studying maps?
She thinks Agnes will think Bush is crazy
117
What did Bush dream and Agnes confirm LaRue had just received?
Two mummies, a mother and a child
118
Bones and dry flesh of the dead do not belong...
in human dwellings
119
What could Angela smell through LaRue's door?
Furs, bones, and formaldehyde
120
On her way back to Agnes's house, who gives Angela a ride?
Tommy
121
Why does Angela refuse Tommy's ride back to Bush's?
She needs the time to think about her dreams and Bush's sanity
122
Who else might need Tommy that day?
His grandfather who is losing his eyesight
123
What music does Angela hear from the radios on her way across the ice?
The Beatles, Tammy Wynette, the Polka Kings
124
Which river flows under the ice?
Perdition River
125
What items does Angela list as being spiral in shape?
Shining plankton, the Milky Way, the double helix of humans, the northern lights
126
What is happening when Angela makes it back to Bush's?
She is crying in the dark and has let the fire go out
127
What does Angela insist they do the following day?
Visit Dora-Rouge to tell her their plans
128
How does LaRue look when he arrives witht he ancient map?
Cologne, new shirt, ponytail, handsome
129
Why does LaRue want Bush?
He wants to cure his loneliness
130
What zodiac sign is LaRue's?
Scorpio
131
What allusion does Angela make when comparing LaRue's map loaning to quests?
The Golden Fleece
132
What is different about this map?
It was undated, beautiful, illustrated, had gold
133
What is blowing air around the map?
Cherubs
134
How are mudflats depicted on the map?
By sinking things: a drowning person, a sinking boat
135
Why did LaRue get the mummies?
He wants to start a museum someday
136
How does Bush react when LaRue suggests Bush might like him?
She quits working for him and boxes up the bones she has
137
What does Angela do to alleviate the situation between LaRue and Bush?
She makes coffee and decides to go back to the mainland with LaRue
138
What two excuses does she use to go to the mainland?
She is going to help Agnes paper her shelves and she wants to see Tommy
139
Why does Angela want LaRue and Bush to be together?
She is worried about Bush's seclusion and he is the only available man in her age range
140
Why is Angela really going to the mainland with LaRue?
She wants to give him some advice on how to attract Bush
141
What is the first piece of advice Angela gives LaRue?
Get rid of the mummies
142
When did Bush gather up the maps and go to the mainland?
Toward spring
143
What are the trees saying?
They are telling winter to hurry away, singing back the sun and the the green new shoots of living things
144
What sound is everywhere at the beginning of Chapter 10?
Water dripping, running, surfacing
145
The faithful earth was described as...
opening, rising, muddy, soft, and renewed
146
In addition to human dreams, what other dreams were invaded by spring?
Those of the moose and wolves
147
Who was ready for an argument at the beginning of Chapter 10?
Bush
148
Who says "How wonderful" upon hearing Bush's plan to travel to the land of the Fat-Eaters?
Dora-Rouge
149
Why does Bush say she is taking Dora-Rouge with them?
Because she knows that Dora-Rouge wants to return home to die
150
Who realizes that this means she must also go?
Agnes
151
Why does Dora-Rouge say she shouldn't go?
She will be a burden
152
Who volunteers to carry Dora-Rouge?
Angela
153
What is Agnes good at in the canoe?
She is good with rapids and white-capped waves
154
Who knows a way to go that will keep them in the water most of the time?
Dora-Rouge
155
Whose eyes were like the small, round pictures of Mary and Jesus?
Bush's
156
What does John Husk call the phenomenon of the planaria remembering tasks the gone ones had known by eating their ancestors?
Cell-deep memory
157
What does Angela call the remembering of what has gone before us?
A sad homing
158
What is the name of the old waterway that Dora-Rouge would like them to take?
The Million-Dollar Trail
159
What is another reason Dora-Rouge wants to travel north?
To get the plants up north that she can use to make useful medicines
160
What does Dora-Rouge call maps?
Only masks over the face of God
161
How many people are going on the journey north?
4
162
How has Agnes changed since she agreed to go on the journey?
She agrees with everything Dora-Rouge says even when she is clearly wrong
163
Who tries to comfort Agnes with scientific knowledge?
John Husk
164
Who arrives to the house wearing a scarf that matches her eye shadow?
Frenchie
165
What is Frenchie bringing them?
Helene's office chair for Dora-Rouge
166
What would Frenchie like, more than anything?
To see Helene's face and touch her hand one more time
167
How does she picture Helene now?
Curled up at the bottom of the water next to whalebones, Skidoos, and old trucks
168
What is a talent Angela has gained since being in the north?
She can recognize footprints
169
How is Dora-Rouge moving in the office chair?
She was pushing herself using a rubber-tipped crutch like an oar
170
What does Husk say about scientists?
That some things are so obvious that scientists couldn't even see them
171
What does Angela believe repels women and animals from LaRue?
His smell/cologne
172
What were people suddenly possessed by when spring came?
A great, restless longing
173
What does Angela say to Bush to make LaRue seem desirable?
He's kind of good-looking, don't you think?
174
What does Bush call LaRue when she is mending the fishnets?
A lost cause
175
Why does Dora-Rouge stay home instead of attending Helene's memorial?
She is resting for their trip
176
What food was served at the memorial?
Breads, rice, stews
177
What is Frenchie wearing to the memorial?
A black chiffon scarf on her head
178
Why do the Hundred-Year-Old Road people live so long?
They shun the ways of the white world and remember to live each day with reverence
179
How do the people cry?
Weeping out loud, without self-consciousness or apology or embarrassment
180
What does Frenchie decide to bury instead of Helene?
Her favorite things: a silver ring, a pair of Cree shoes, red earth, a marten fur, a tortoiseshell comb, a picture of a man, Tweed cologne, a pocketknife
181
How were the items buried?
In an old wooden grub box inside a small canoe, next to Helene's favorite doll wearing a red scarf
182
What does Frenchie sing while they are burying the items?
Helene's song, a song never to be sung again
183
What is food for lean times?
A soup of rocks, twigs, and moss
184
What kitchen item holds special significance due to its age?
The black castiron kettle
185
Who was bathed with water from the kettle?
Harold, Angela's grandfather
186
What makes people desperate for love?
Death
187
What is a beginning, a secret warth that grows and comes alive?
Love
188
What does Angela realize about love?
It's a third person come to stand between the loving two
189
What does Dora-Rouge claim to hear?
The grass growing
190
Why does Angela paddle out to the Hungry Mouth?
She sings Helene's song as if to leave it there
191
What sounds does spring fill the world with?
The running of water, the ice breaking up, the wind and stars telling birds the way home
192
What became unmoored and had to be towed back to its place?
The island of spiders
193
Who towed it back to its place at Fur Island?
John Husk
