Chapter 11 Flashcards
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1
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According to Dora-Rouge, what are traveling toward them at the beginning of Chapter 11?
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The skins of the dead
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How is Bush’s cart described?
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Squeaky-wheeled and red
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What was Bush’s cart piled high with?
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Animal skins, gold-tinged furs of wolves and dark beaver
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What type of bird few up from the road when Bush was approaching?
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Mud swallows
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What did the men do to try to smooth the road?
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Raked rocks and filled in potholes
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What were the skins a symbol of?
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Her fight with the trappers, what was left of a past
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What lives in the pelts of wolves?
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Grasses and moose meat
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What lives in the pelts of beavers?
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Water and trees
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Why is Bush selling the furs?
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To buy provisions for their trip
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What did Bush buy for their trip?
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Sacks of oats, Carnation powdered milk, dried meat, three pairs of olive green lace-up rubber boots
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Why did Bush save some of the beaver pelts for the trip?
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To trade outposes and stations along the northern waterways
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What did the furs smell of?
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Cedar and dust
13
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When Angela asks Agnes, “What would happen if we had trouble up there?”, what does Agnes reply?
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What are you? The FBI?
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Who is the only one who believed that they would complete the journey?
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Dora-Rouge
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Who said, “The strongest men wouldn’t do such a stupid thing as that”?
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Justin LaBlanc
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How much did the boots cost?
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4.98
17
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When thinking about her appearance, how has Angela changed while she’s been with the women?
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She used to only care about what she looked like
18
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Which word does Angela say she likes?
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Destination
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What two words did Angela dream before meeting two boys and leaving with them?
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Achtung and Halt
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What did Angela call the two boys?
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Stop and Look
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Where did she meet the boys from Munich?
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At the A&W
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Where did Angela go with the boys?
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To Frontier Day in Cheyenne Wyoming
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How do people’s destinies link together?
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Like roots and vines
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Even though she has doubts, why is Angela willing to go on the trip?
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She wants to find her mother
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What does Agnes worry about bringing?
Too little toilet paper and the wheels from the office chair
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What is Angela's task on the day before they were planning to leave?
To help Dora-Rouge pack her belongings to give away after her death
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What is included in the boxes?
Silverware, old moccasins, carnival glass platters
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What is Frenchie getting in her box?
An unused nightgown and a bottle of wine from 1947
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What is Dora-Rouge leaving for the Hundred-Year-Old Road people?
Herbs, seeds, and a few kernels of corn
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Who is going to get Dora-Rouge's paperweight?
Justin
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How many days does Bush say the trip will take?
Thirteen
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What are some of the extra items that Agnes adds?
Extra toilet paper, lotion, a knife, salt
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Who is throwing a going-away party?
Frenchie
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Who is described as the alpha male of the pack?
John Husk
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What does the sign on Frenchie's door say?
Bon Voyage
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How were Frenchie's balloons described?
Halfhearted little affairs, as wrinkled and rosy as Frenchie herself
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How is Frenchie's house described?
Perfume smell, bright blue vases flickering television
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How did the others part to let Dora-Rouge through?
Like the Red Sea
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What kind of flowers does Frenchie have ferried in?
Red carnations and baby's breath
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How is Angela like the flowers?
She is a forced bloom in unnatural conditions
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What is Dora-Rouge amazed to see at Frenchie's?
The windows had no streaks
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What instrument is Frenchie playing?
The fiddle in B-Flat
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Who has gotten bored with the talk of fishing and poker and decides to hold Frenchie's hand?
Justin LaBlanc
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What is Justin LaBlanc drinking?
Dr. Pepper
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What smells are in the house that create an intoxicating poison?
Whiskey, soup, bread, and perfume
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Who is drinking?
Two young men in Frenchie's bedroom
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Who runs through the house?
Three boys and one girl
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What did Frenchie prepare for dinner?
Wild rice and ham soup
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What makes some people want to smirk or laugh, even though they do not?
Finger bowls for washing their hands
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How are the two drinking men described?
One is round and light-skinned with a cast, the other was dark and bone-thin with a red bandanna around his forehead
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Who did Tommy arrive with?
Four of the quiet people from the Hundred-Year-Old Road
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Which brand of dinnerware did Frenchie use?
Melmac
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Who is married to a twenty-four year old wife named Chiquita?
Wiley
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What is Wiley wearing?
A thin cotton shirt, sleeveless tee, high pants
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What did he say to the room?
A prayer for Dora-Rouge's safe departure
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Who did the pray to?
The Great Spirit
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When Wiley finally decides to join in the merriment, what does he drink?
A glass of Coca-Cola
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Which perfume does Chiquita love and Frenchie demands she take?
Avon's Persian Wood
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In addition to the lack of safety, why does Angela dread making the trip?
She will be away from Tommy
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How does LaRue watch Bush?
Like a predator who had just spotted a helpless lamb
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Bush doesn't pay any attention to LaRue because she is talking to...
Mrs. Illinois
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At about what time did the men start giving advice to the women about their upcoming journey?
9 o'clock
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Who ends up silencing the men?
Mrs. Illinois
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Angela says she knows clearly that she does not want to go on the trip, as clearly as she knows...
the love line and life lines on her own palm
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When Angela feels a chill, she compares it to what?
Wedding night jitters for a bride, last-minute nerves
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What does Mrs. Illinois want Dora-Rouge to bring back?
The tiny plants with round leaves on Sleeper Island
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What is Dora-Rouge's old name?
Ena
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What happens at ten o'clock?
They watch the news
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What news items are discussed during the broadcast?
The Vietnam War, the American Indian Movement, Wounded Knee
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What was even more absent from the news than the AIM?
The dams and diversions of rivers to the north
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What does Justin call the AIM members?
Reds, Communists
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Who is most upset about Justin's words?
Frenchie
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What does Justin say to justify his unpopular opinion?
That he is just using the words that were ingrained in him by the U.S. Army sergeants
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How does Justin try to get back on Frenchie's good side?
Eating one of her cookies
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What does Frenchie give Dora-Rouge as a gift for the trip?
Two bags of wild rice
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When he is going too fast while pushing her, what does Dora-Rouge say John Husk is damaging?
Her kidneys
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Angela knows that she will lose what during the trip?
A part of herself
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Before, Anglea feared night and sleep, but now that list also contains...
lakes, rivers, and things with teeth
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Who knocks on the door in the night?
Tommy
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How are Tommy and Angela woken up?
By Agnes asking if Angela remembered to pack the rice
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What smell is coming from the kitchen the morning of their departure?
Bacon
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What shocks Agnela about Tommy spending the night?
No one said a word about him being there
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Who makes Tommy eggs for breakfast?
John Husk
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In the north, what does true sin involve?
Crimes against nature and life
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Why do Angela and Bush exchange concerned glances?
They know they are the ones who will need to do most of the work on the trip
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What is the Fat-Eaters' territory called on the maps?
The Two-Town area
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How many people were by the lake to see Dora-Rouge off?
A few carloads of people
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Which animal spoke a solitary word as they finished loading the boat with the supplies?
A loon
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What boat is taking them the first part of their trip?
The Raven
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Which backpack does Angela have to carry?
The food pack
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What does Angela think might break under the enormous weight of the backpack?
Her ankles
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What is Bush's solution to Angela's ankle problem?
The military boots
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What does Bush say to try to make a joke about the weight?
We need a choreographer.
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How does Angela feel about the journey on their first day?
Discouraged
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Who had trouble keeping up on the first day?
Agnes
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What does Angela say is the reason they can't take an easier route?
They wouldn't reach their destination, there were herbs to gather, and place Dora-Rouge needed to visit
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How does Tommy carry Dora-Rouge?
Like she is a bag of feathers
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What does Dora-Rouge hear coming from the ground?
The French songs
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What compels Angela to keep going on the first day?
She wants to understand the summoning she feels, maybe the summoning of water
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Which mythical character does Angela compare Tommy to?
Paul Bunyon
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What does John Husk give to Bush for safety?
A pistol and bullets in the waterproof case
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Who calles Dora-Rouge "my mother"?
John Husk
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What does Dora-Rouge believe is in the soup of the air?
Love, pollen, and stars
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How did Dora-Rouge settle into the canoe?
Like she had always lived there
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What bird calls out as John Husk and Tommy disappear from view?
Ravens
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What does Bush say is an advantage when they are in the water?
The waters are swollen
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What does Angela do that no one talks about?
Cries
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What did Agnes forget?
Her coat
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How does Angela feel when they finally stop on the first night?
Exhausted beyond anything she had ever known
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Why do they hand the food pack up high?
So bears won't get into it
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What was along one of the two portages that they crossed the second day?
Unfolding ferns, horsetail, and deep,cool shade
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What does Dora-Rouge say is highly overrated?
The vichyssoise soup
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At what age was Dora-Rouge taken by Indian agents to go to school?
Twelve
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Due to her tomboy nature and fishing ability, what was Dora-Rouge's nickname?
Walleye
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Why was Dora-Rouge afraid of the men?
Blue eyes and very tall
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What is Dora-Rouge's mother's name?
Ek
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What happened to Dora-Rouge's sister?
She lay down in the snow and froze to death
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How far did Dora-Rouge walk from school to home when news of her sister reached her?
Thirty-two miles in the snow
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What did Dora-Rouge steal to make the trip?
Sunglasses and seal boots
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What animal does Dora-Rouge imagine her father bringing in?
A lynx
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Who hoped Dora-Rouge would grow up ugly?
Her brother
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What illness strikes Dora-Rouge on the trip?
She gets frostbite on her fingers
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Who were the first to see the white men coming?
Women
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What did they believe their ships were?
Floating islands of beautiful beings
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What are some of the places Dora-Rouge correctly says they'll pass on the following days?
The Meeting Place and God Island
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What is the current name of God Island?
Smith's Island
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Why did a very tall mad travel to God Island?
To find copper, also called red silver
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Which biblical allusions does Angela mention when talking about God?
Job, Abraham, and Jonah
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Why does Angela believe it is called God Island?
It simply means to call out, pray, summon, to use words and sing, speak
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How does Angela come to view God?
God was everything beneath her feet, everything surrounded by water, in the air, no such thing as empty space
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What was the last day they called by name?
Wednesday
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What does the place inside humans that spoke with the land tell them?
Charts of land and currents of water, where food animals lived, the language animals and humans had in common, how to find cures
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After time slips away from Angela, what fills her dreams?
Plants
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Where does Angela say the roots of dreaming might be?
In the soil of dailiness, in the heart, or in another place without words
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What creates ocean, lake, and ice?
The seeds of hydrogen and oxygen joining together
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Who else had been a plant dreamer in Angela's family?
Ek
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What does Angela use for a pencil?
The burnt end of a matchstick
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If the world came to an end, who did Angela want to be with?
Bush
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What does Angela use for paper?
A torn brown bag
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Which plant is good for headaches?
Akitsi plant
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What color is the akitsi plant?
Sage green
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What is Angela craving just a single chip of while working so hard?
Ice
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What moved inside the shadows of trees then stepped into a cloud?
A full-tailed fox
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How did Angela describe the decaying, moss-covered pieces of the boat on one of the islands?
Like the ribs of a large animal
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What rips apart and upsets Bush?
Her map
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What does Dora-Rouge do when the map rips?
She laughs and says to throw it away
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What is confusing Dora-Rouge and Bush about the journey?
They didn't know there was a swamp there
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What roles does Angela do during the journey?
She gathers fire wood, builds fires, helps set up tents and bed rolls
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What is Agnes's role during the journey?
She cooks
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What sound seemed to lie upon the land like a cloud covering the world?
The singing of wolves
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What does Bush have to help combat the mosquitos?
White hats with brims and veils, like safari hats
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What does Dora-Rouge say they should have been drinking that would repel the mosquitos?
Swamp tea
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Why does Agnes say the mosquitos are most attracted to Angela?
She eats too much sugar
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Angela heard stories of what being killed by mosquitos?
Men and caribou
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What is described as silver and heavy as mercury?
The swamp water
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What does Dora-Rouge say about mosquitos?
They are one of the oldest forms of life
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When Angela hears the lonely, sad songs coming through the trees, what does it make her think of?
Undoing the explorers' routes, taking apart the advance of commers, narrowing down and distilling the truth out of history
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What does Angela use to help keep the bugs from biting and to soothe bites she already has?
Mud
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Who is described as being as uncontained as she had previously been contained?
Bush
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What things does Angela list that Bush might be thinking about when she is off by herself?
Betrayals, unhealed wounds, the loss of Angela, the solitude
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Who or what is Agnes talking to?
The bear coat
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Angela says she was awake in time that was measured before...
axes, traps, flint, carpenter's nails
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What does Angela describe as their bodies and skin?
The canoes
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What does Angela feel is sometimes present?
Eyes around them, peering through trees and fog
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Who says, "Yes, I believe we've always been lost"?
Dora-Rouge
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What did the four women become during the trip?
One animal
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With her grandmothers, Angela says there is no such thing as...
loneliness
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What was depicted on the walls supposedly painted by spirits?
Red moose and bear
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What did Dora-Rouge's people depict on the walls in black, red, and white?
Moose, a winged wolverine, a white bird
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How did they know the water had risen?
The trees and other rock paintings were submerged
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What makes up a water molecule?
Two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen
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How are the deer depicted in the rock painting?
Standing as if startled by a twig breaking in the underwater forest
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Where were Angela and her many mothers lost?
In the sky, water, and galaxy, resting on a small planet
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Why is Agnes cheerful when Angela returns from swimming?
There is fresh meat, a rabbit
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What does Bush use to make a snare?
Twine, twig, and one nail
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When Bush is describing the sight her uncle saw of the bears, how many bears were there?
Thirty
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What type of dried fruit do the women stir into hot water?
Apricots
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How does Agnes try to summon the bear?
Singing bear songs, doing a hidden dance called bear walking, talking to the bear
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What is Angela's new fear that is shared by Dora-Rouge?
If something happened to one of them, there was no one to help
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What did the Europeans do for their legacy?
They removed the spirts from everything, from animals, trees, fishhooks, hammers
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What lived together well before the Europeans?
Lynx, women, trappers, beavers
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What does Angela say most people now had?
Inarticulate souls, silent spirits, and despairing hearts
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What did hunters of the past do?
Blinded animals so they could not see what was done to their bodies, tied bird feet together, cut the paws off bear
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Angela says that sometimes on the trip, she can hear...
the voices of the world, the stones, the water flowing, the osprey fishing, the minnow and spawn, trees roots
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What does Dora-Rouge say happened on the tenth day of creation?
They could ask animals for things like directions and healing
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According to Dora-Rouge, what happened on the eighth day of creation?
Human beings were given their place with the earth
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On the ninth day of creation, was the creation of...
stories that had many uses
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What was created on other days?
1. Snails, slugs, night crawlers, silverfish, roaches 2. Singing and songs
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What did the creation of stories do?
Taught them about work, kindness, love, a way out of unhappiness
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Who is the person that Angela feels is closest to a mother figure?
Bush
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What does Angela think Dora-Rouge is, if Bush is her mother?
God
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What does Angela do for Agnes when they are around the fire?
Rubs oil into her back
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When they see the next set of rock paintings, of lynx and the moon, how is the lynx described?
Gazing down at itself in the water's reflection, looking at its twin as if they had just met for the first time
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Who is in the canoe besides the man and woman?
Their dog Tyler
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Seeing the others in the overburdened canoe make Angela realize...
they must also look foolish
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What are the names of the couple?
Bob and Jean
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Why does Dora-Rouge invite the couple to camp with them for the night?
She thinks the company will be go for them
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What river does the man say they can't get around the old way anymore?
The Se Nay River
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What River has been diverted into the Se Nay River?
The Big Arm River
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What kind of dog are the couple travelling with?
A white shepherd
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Why does he say you they wouldn't want to travel down the river?
Too many rapids
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Why is Agnes apprehensive about the couple?
She thinks they are cannibals
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What does the man point out that is creating a blue glow in the sky?
A bog fire
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Why are the couple there?
They are planning to live in the wilderness
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What do the couple offer for the feast?
Oranges
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Why does the woman want to leaver?
She believes the women are crazy
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According to the old story, what kind of boat did the cannibals float in on?
One made of human skin
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According to the old story, the cannibal woman gave birth to twins that were...
war and starvation
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According to the old story, what did the cannibals travel with?
A white wolf
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Who saved the humans from the cannibals?
Wolverine
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Who does Angela say is the most stable on the trip?
Herself
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How long has the bog fire been burning?
Over a year
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What does Dora-Rouge ask Angela that makes her start to notice something new?
Do you think Agnes is sick?
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What symptoms is Agnes displaying?
Pale, exhausted, swollen ankles, her leg is seeping fluid
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In the swamp, Bush decided that they should...
stay there for a day and rest
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Why does Bush think they should rest for a day?
She also notices that Agnes is not doing well
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Bush is certain that were not far from where?
North House
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When they are collecting firewood, what does Agnes ask Angela?
If something happens to her, lay her out for the wolves and birds to consume
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Who noticed that Angela and Agnes had been talking?
Dora-Rouge
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Why does Angela feel the need to wash clothes?
She wants to look clean because they are almost to where they would see other people again
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What kind of plant did Angela dream of that night?
Redroot
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Why does Dora-Rouge think Angela dreamed of redroot?
Because that's what they need to find
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What other plant does she think they need?
Wolfsbane
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Who asks Bush if they are lost?
The man and woman that left in the night
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What does Dora-Rouge ask the man and woman for?
Pen and paper
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Why does Dora-Rouge want the pen and paper?
So Angela can sketch the plant from her dream
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Why does Dora-Rouge say the river is so loud?
Both rivers that have been combined are angry
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Who thinks they can still travel the river?
Dora-Rouge
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Angela feels they cannot turn back because they had...
they'd gone too far inside themselves
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What does Dora-Rouge do to try to help the situation?
She talks to the churning river to convince it to let them pass safely
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What else does Dora-Rouge do to make sure they can pass safely?
Prays, signs, throws tobacco
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Whose advice does Angela remember and take when they are in the river?
John Husk said to go with it, like riding a horse
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When they finally make it through the rapids, what do the women do?
They lay down cold and exhausted on firm ground
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What joke does Dora-Rouge make when they are back on land?
Those women are crazy.
