Chap. 5-7 Flashcards
(188 cards)
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After the storm moves in, who began to wonder how Hannah had survived?
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Angela
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Angela wondered what her mother thought of Fur Island with its…
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island of spiders, fish leaping out of the lake, plaintive cries of loon and wolf, storms that moved in so quickly
3
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How do the old people say our lives are witnessed?
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By the birds, dragonflies, trees, and spiders
4
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Who believed everything was alive?
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The people at Adam’s Rib
5
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Dora-Rouge described the world as a…
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dense soup of love
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What do the shadows light throws down have?
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Meaning, stories, depth, and were filled with whatever had walked there
7
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Who believes that even tools, fishhooks, and the ball-peen hammer are alive?
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John Husk
8
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Who sees the earth as a seed with some great life stored inside?
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Angela
9
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At the beginning of Chapter 6, what does Angela say is alive on Fur Island?
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The stinging nettles, the snails, the stone, and the tree wich folded its leaves when touched by human hands
10
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The division between humans and animals was…
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false
11
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When humans forget to respect the bond between humans and animals, who takes away their luck in hunting?
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Wolverine
12
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Who does Bush say this affects?
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LaRue
13
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At the beginning of Chapter 6, why does LaRue show up to see Angela?
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To take her on the long-ago promised fishing trip
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How does Angela feel about LaRue taking so long to take her on the trip?
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Perturbed
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What does LaRue do when he sees Bush in the garden?
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Smiles, ogles her, and walks straight into a branch
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What type of body of water do Angela and LaRue go to for fishing?
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A cove
17
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What color shirt is Angela wearing to go fishing?
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Red
18
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What is ironic about the fishing trip?
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LaRue is supposed to be the expert, but Angela is the one who catches the fish
19
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What fish did Angela catch?
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Two northern pike
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Why does LaRue think the fish are not in pain?
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They don’t have nervous systems
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Which character does LaRue mention when describing Angela’s sensitivity to the pain of the fish?
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Bambi
22
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Angela feels that LaRue has offended…
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the spirits of the fish
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During the storm, why does Angela try to stay away from LaRue?
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She believes that the lightning is looking to strike him for his offense against the fish
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What does Bush say there are consequences for?
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Human sins
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How do some people describe Wolverine?
A human gone wild
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What are the physical characteristics of Wolverine?
Dark animal, large-jawed, strong teeth, terrible smell
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According to Bush, LaRue does not know the proper way to approach...
animals, fish, and women
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What does Bush feed the beaver she is putting together?
A pinch of ground bark
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After the fishing trip with LaRue, what does Angela vow?
To never fish again
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Even on warm days, Angela still feels...
a chill
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What does Angela keep inside her purse?
A tiny, smudged mirror
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What happens to the mirror?
Angela accidentally breaks it
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What does Angela begin to "read" about people?
She looks in their eyes to see what kind of souls they had
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Bush's soul is as strong as...
hardwood
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Frenchie's soul is...
sad and masked
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To which bird does Angela compare herself when she says she can even see the fish on the bottom?
A heron
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What gift does Angela have?
She could see to the bottom of things
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Why does Angela decide to fish again?
She goes with Bush, and they respect their catches' lives and their deaths
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What is the woman in the white-walled cave doing in Angela's dream?
Sewing together pieces of humans
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What does Bush say she would do if we rebuilt human beings?
They would be love-filled, the way they were meant to be all along
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What is creating the music on the island?
The old organ pipes
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What had the immigrants believed about the wilderness?
It was full of demons that only their god could drive away
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What does Bush call the people that destroy all that can save them?
The reverse people
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What does Dora-Rouge say the reverse people invented?
They were the ones who invented Hell
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What does Angela say is hell to them?
Cleared forests and killed animals
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Why was there a massacre at Adam's Rib?
The native people declared war on the newcomers because of a misunderstanding about a shipment of stovepipes
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Who had ordered that the organ pipes be hidden on Fur Island?
The bishop
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Whe men who unloaded the organ pipes thought their god led them to what?
The copper
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Why did the old man trick the men with his map to the copper?
To rid his people of the outsiders who dreamed of wealth, who wanted to turn copper into gold
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What are the colors of the four directions?
Red, black, white, and yellow
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What color is Fur Island?
Gold, the world of yellow light, pale copper, sun, and corn
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According to Dora-Rouge, what two items were passed won from generation to generation?
Corn and amber
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Where di the corn that grew on Fur Island originate?
South America
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Who received the corn when they had navigated their way around the tip of the southern world?
One of the Fat-Eaters
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What did the Fat-Eaters mainly eat?
Meat and fat
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As a girl, who was the keeper of the corn?
Dora-Rouge
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How was the corn stored?
In large, dry leaves, the likes of which no one in the north had ever seen
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Where was the corn hidden and protected after the Fat-eaters were confined by the government?
Beneath the dark floorboards of their houses in little clay holes
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How did Bush get the corn?
Dora-Rouge gave her a little handful of the corn mothers
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How long is the growing season on Fur Island?
Ninety-four days
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What vegetables does Bush carefully tend, according to Chapter 6?
Pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, and corn
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Why does Angela think the corn is so sweet on Fur Island?
It is the infused with the healing milk the bishop had dynamited
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Where do you feel change?
In the body, stomach, and heart
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Who said we are cocoons who consume our own bodies and at death we fly away transfomed and beautiful?
Dora-Rouge
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What does Bush wear when canoeing to the mainland?
A dress and her shoes slung over her shoulder
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Who taught Bush how to paddle the canoe?
John Husk and some of the older men who now lived along the Hundred-Year-Old Road
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Who is described as the water element, according to Angela?
Bush
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Who is described as the air element, according to Angela?
Angela
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In Chapter 6, who is Angela happy to see again at Tinselman's Store?
Tommy
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What was Bush purchasing at Tinselman's?
Canned ham and a bag of flour
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On television, who makes people swallow with guilt when she has their number?
Barbara Walters
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What products does Angela say sounded like love?
Pet Milk, hooks, lines, sinkers
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Why is Angela nervous around the older people?
She thinks they know things about her
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Later Angela discovers that walking along what road makes her feel calm?
The Hundred-Year-Old Road
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Who logged the once forest at Adam's Rib?
Tough, bristling, blond-headed men with large hands
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What did the woods that were logged become?
Toothpicks, matches, the whirling sands that blow where forests no longer stand
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What is so dark that crow wings could have been in them?
Tommy's eyes
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Why does Angela blush when she enters Agnes's house?
Agnes said, "You're filling out" in front of Tommy
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How has Agnes changed since the last time Angela saw her?
Her clothes had grown too larger for her
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What is wrong with Dora-Rouge's new teeth?
They are overly-white
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Which movie did Tony Curtis star in?
The Great Race
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What does Dora-Rouge call Tommy?
The hunk
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What does Angela think might be inside Dora-Rouge's mind?
Old clothing, furniture from the past, the memory of forests and wolves, and Luther's first kiss
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What does John Husk read in his magazine?
Insects are intelligent
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What has Agnes neglected to do that autumn?
Turn the garden and pull the weeds
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Where did the weeds originate from?
France and Britain
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What did Agnes lose, then find later in the bath, according to Dora-Rouge?
The teakettle
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What beverage do they drink at Agnes's?
Watkins Kool-Aod
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What does Dora-Rouge compare to the lotion that Angela applies to her bony back?
Bear fat
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What does Angela decide to learn even though it is cold?
How to swim
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What animal does Bush advise Angela to think like when she keeps sinking in the water?
A turtle
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Why does Bush get quiet, nervous, and edgy sometimes?
She is thinking about the dams and the northern people
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Which animals lost its summer fur and went white when preparing for winter?
The snowshoe hare
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What does John Husk call the rusting that happens?
The slow fire of oxidation
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What binds the three women and Angela?
Blood, history, love, and hate
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What red fruits did Bush and Angela can in preparation for winter?
Peaches, apricots, tomatoes
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Why does Bush feed the animals she is reconstructing?
She is feeding their spirits
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What does hse feed the small wolverine?
A pinch of cornmeal and fat
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Who is a fierce mother, according to Bush?
Wolverine
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According to Chapter 6, what were the first man and woman created from?
Clay
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What does Angela say came before "the word"?
The loneliness of God
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Angela says she is suspended on the island of...
snails, mosses, snow, windstorms
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Whose words are putting Angela back together like the wolverine?
Bush's
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What does Bush call Hannah Wing?
The girl filled with ice
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What bruises the sweet-bodied human fruit?
Fear and rage
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What did Bush learn through Hannah Wing?
Failures of love, the remote indifference of a god, people only a shade away from evil
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What does the lake tell the sky?
Last year's ice, the jewelry lost in its waters, the fishermen who'd fallen
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Why do Angela and Bush go to LaRue's house?
Bush is picking up bones to reassemble for schools and museums
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What oddities does Angela see in LaRue's house?
Bear teeth, a red-faced pheasant, a stuffed bobcat with a cigar
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Because of her dislike for LaRue, what does Angela propose she and Bush sell instead?
Shirts
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Why does Bush say she reassembles the bones?
She helps the soul of the animals and respects them
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What are some examples of items Wolverine steals from humans?
Flints, food, people's needs
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What do Angela and Bush have in common?
They both have trouble sleeping
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What words haunt Bush?
The information about the dams and river diversions
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Where does Angela say her story unfolded?
The nooks of America, the crannies of marble buildings, the offices of social workers
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What is in a case-worker's office?
Abused and neglected children, a locked file cabinet, lost papers, a hierarchy of administrators and secretaries
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Why does Bush say Angela's mother was a door?
She was always closed
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Why was Hannah sometimes a window?
Through her, Bush glimpsed scenes of suffering
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How else is Hannah described?
Stairs with no destination, a burning house, one step away from collapsing
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Where did they live when Hannah came out of the water?
The dark blue house at Old Fish Hook
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What did Bush say Hannah looked like she was born from?
The storm
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What was Hannah wearing when she came?
Men's pants and large shirt
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Why does Agnes say that she is sure Hannah came from Loretta?
She smelled of bitter almonds and apple seeds, had red hair and dark skin
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What made the women think Hannah had clung to a log to save herself from the storm?
Her fingernails were broken
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Who did Hannah steal the dark gray shawl from?
Mrs. Illinois
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What else did Hannah steal?
A brown dress, a green skirt, a cardigan with blue pearl buttons, a work shirt
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Why does Bush think she stole the clothing?
She wanted protection, the only skin between her and all the rest
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What did Bush do to help the community with Hannah's thievery?
She posted a sign at Tinselman's where people could write what was taken, so she could replace the items
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What does Bush say Hannah looked like in all of the stolen clothing?
A ragpicker and an old, broken woman
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What shows Bush Hannah's tortured side?
Her dark, flat eyes
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What antidote-less problem do the older people say afflicts Hannah?
Soul loss
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What is the one thing that made Bush feel afraid?
Hannah
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What doesn't Hannah do?
Sleep
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To what does Bush compare Hannah's ability to become invisible, part of a wall?
Animals that are in danger
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What kind of soap does Bush grate to wash Hannah?
Fels Naptha and Lifebuoy
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What type of pest was present the year Hannah came?
Chiggers
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What is Hannah wearing underneath all of the layers of clothing?
A large swimsuit
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What is covering Hannah?
Scars
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What does Bush now call the scars?
The signatures of torturers
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What rare plant does Dora-Rouge to make the sleeping medicine?
The lii plants
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What did Bush hope for with Hannah?
That she was taken up into the sky by the northern lights
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Where does Bush take Hannah for help?
A priest
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What does Hannah tell Bush lives inside her?
A hand that crept out at night and tried to molest and strangle her
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Why does Bush end up believing Hannah?
She was knocked back by an invisible force
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Why do religious people avoid Hannah?
She tester their fath and it failed, they felt the world was ruined and would never be whole again
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Who is the only other person who was not afraid to be with Hannah?
The Old Man on the Hundred-Year-Old Road
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What do people sometimes give the Old Man for his services?
Cloth, tobacco, and/or food
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What does is say when he waves the feather over Hannah?
She is the house. She is the meeting place.
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What does Bush say meet inside Hannah?
Time, history, genocide, spilled oceans of blood
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What does Old Man say Hannah needs?
A ceremony to call back lost or stolen souls
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Why can't the ceremony be performed?
There was no one still alive who was strong enough to sing the beautiful words that would break the singer's life
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Why will no one name what is wrong with Hannah?
They are afraid that if they say the word, it will hear its name and come for them
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At the end of Chapter 6, how does Bush describe the people on Elk Island?
Starving and poisoned
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What does John Husk say can collapse a bridge?
A certain tone or pitch of the wind
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According to John Husk, what kind of song can Bush sing?
A song that broke down other kinds of bridges
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Why did Bush learn these songs?
To take out the bridges between bad spirits and people, to try to help Hannah
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Angela says that she has seen these kinds of bridges where?
Up north where they are constructing the dams and diverting rivers
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What three visitors does Hannah say she had?
A man who stretched out her pants, a ghost who unbuttoned her dress, and a man who carried her head
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What does Hannah deny doing, even though Bush saw her do it?
Break the window
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Why does Bush want to sing herself inside Hannah?
To understand the ones who lived there, to coax them out, to cajole them into stillness and rest
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What did Bush do to prepare herself to enter Hannah?
She slept outdoors on the sacred ground, sand, and fasted
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What does Bush find inside Hannah?
The hand, the voices in other languages, no map, ruins of humans, burned children
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What are Bush and Angela preparing for as the birds migrated south?
The trout run
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What color are the bellies of the trout?
White
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When Angela visits Agnes and Dora-Rouge at the beginning of Chapter 7, what does Dora-Rouge reveal?
She wants to go home to the Fat-Eaters because it is her time to die, there are things Bush won't tell her about her mother
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What animal did Hannah kill?
A dog
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What happened to the dog?
Hannah kicked him, he had needles in his mouth, nose, and ears, one foot was cut off
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Why didn't they send Hannah away?
It wasn't her fault that she was like that
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How did they feel when Hannah was gone?
Grateful
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Why did they decide to keep Hannah when she returned?
She was pregnant with Angela and they were afraid Hannah would kill her
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How does John Husk describe Angela?
Like the blue light and beauty that a glacier gives off
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What burns for years with the power of rising gas?
Peat fires
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What does Angela say she would one day understand she walked out of?
Bullets and hunger
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What does Angela say her mother was the opposite of?
A mouth of a river
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What is Hannah compared to when they say people and things fell into her and were destroyed?
A black hole and an eye of a storm
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Where does Angela say she would like to go?
Where the wind gathers its strength
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What does Agnes's old treadle sewing machine look like?
It has gold leaves and silver grapes painted on its dark cherry wood
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Whose electric sewing machine is described as perfume-scented?
Frenchie's
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What problems happen while trying to sew shirts?
Needles break, thread broke, oil leaked, the feeder wouldn't move, the bobbin was not wound correctly
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Who had to separate a hill of grain one grain at a time?
Psyche
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What is always missing from the animals that Bush reassembles?
The spirit
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Angela thinks that one day she will wake up and find what?
That she is no longer an empty space, that she had become full
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Where did this thought start?
In a small, warm circle inside her stomach
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What is changing Angela?
Everything she sees
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What does Angela list as things she sees that are changing her?
Her new dreams, the northern lights, the moose meat, the fish, and Husk's theories
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What sounds like breaking glass?
The sound of the lake freezing, moving slightly, then refreezing
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How does Angela refer to her other women in her family?
Her grandmothers
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To what does Angela compare the survival of her family?
The hunting of rabbits, the narrowing circle of life
