Literature Section 3 Flashcards
(268 cards)
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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 are parts of the novel Solar Storms 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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Between what state and country 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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Who does Angel reunited with and marry?
Tommy
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Who's house burned down?
Tulik
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Who did the police threaten violence against?
Angel and Dora-Rouge
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Who helped Bush, Angel, and Aurora escape after the baby was teargassed and fell ill?
Mr. Orensen
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Why does Angel return to Adam's Rib?
To find her blood relatives.
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Who is Dora's relative?
Tulik
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What mode of transportation does John Husk use to take Angel to Fur island
A boat
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What weird felling dose Angel feel when nearing Fur Island
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
Bones
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What is special about the river that year
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
Husk
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Who shows up to take Angel fishing and how dose she feel about it
LaRue and she is appalled by it
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Who dose Angel begin a friendship with
Tommy
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In Bush story After Hanna locked Bush out where did Bush find Angel and what was wrong with her
Angel was silent, turned Blue in the cold and was found in tree branches
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In chapter 9 of Solar Storms, where does Dora-Rouge want to go and what does she want to do there
she wants to go home to die
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Who is Ruby afraid of leaving the baby with
Hannah
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What dose Dora-Rouge call Angel because of her weird dreams
a “plant dreamer.”
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What type of magazine does Husk read
a science one
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What theory dose Husk come up with after reading the magazine
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
Moose
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What scientist does Husk use to show his theory about the islanders
Albert Einstein
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The traditional people of Fur Island believe what is a spirit that rules their lives
Water
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What are the "primary components of the environment" in many Indian lives
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?
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?
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
Questions which Angel interrogates the nature of the world. Ex: how her mother survived the “Storm”
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Angel learns from her elders that the world of nature & the world of humans is...
One in the same
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Dora-Rouge & husk describe the land as populated by primarily...
Love
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Chapter 6 is primarily focused on...
"Intergenerational trauma, memory, & suffering
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"The Power of Song" is able to...
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?
She went missing. she was "Silent & blue in the branches of a tree"
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What is Angels half sisters name?
Henriet
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Why would Angels half sister scar herself?
to show how she could'nt be harmed from the outside in.
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Winter in Chapter 9 is described as...
"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...
the Island
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Whose house is burnt down by the worker in chapter 19?
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?
She was placed in foster care at the age of five after her mother, Hannah Wing, physically abused her.
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Who does Angel think of when she steals food from worker in chapter 19 (who is she trying to replicate)?
Angel thinks of Wolverine and steals some food from the workers.
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Whose dogs are shot at in chapter 19?
Mr. Orsen's dogs
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What place does Aurora get help at for her sickness in chapter 19?
Chinobe
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T/F. Bush notices LaRue is a changed man in chapter 20.
True
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How was Dora Rouge's death?
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?
Chapter 21
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Where was Angel born?
Adam's Rib
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How was Angel's childhood?
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?
She is Angel’s great-great-grandmother
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What is the named of Dora-Rouge's late husband?
Luther
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What was the previous name of the Fat-Eaters and why did it change?
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?
When the Se Nay River becomes too dangerous to pass, Dora-Rouge makes a compact with the water that allows the women to survive.
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Who's Agnes' love interest?
Agnes and John Husk have a romantic relationship.
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Who is Angel's mother?
Hannah Wing
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Why does Angel decide to return to her birthplace?
to reunite with her mother
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Why does Angel steal from her foster homes?
to replace missing affection
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Why does Dora-Rouge accompany Bush and Angel?
to return to her homeland
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Who does Dora-Rouge meet when they reach the north?
Tulik
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Which animal does Agnes befriend as a child?
a glacier bear
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What does Agnes ask Angel to do after she died?
give her body to the animals
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Who takes in Hannah and tries to help her?
Bush
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Who helps Angel bury Hannah?
Bush
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Where is Bush originally from?
Oklahoma
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What is Loretta's signature scent?
almonds
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What does Angel realize about Loretta and her mother's almond scent?
it's reminiscent of cyanide
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What was Loretta's Tribe called?
Elk Islander
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What animal carcass was Loretta's tribe forced to eat?
Deer
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What happened after the tribe ate the deer carcasses?
they all died of poisoning, except Loretta
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Solar Storms emphasizes the danger of viewing the land in what way?.
primarily as an extractable resource
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Dora-Rouge and Angel recognize what mentality their referring too as what?
a self-imposed “forgetting” of how to live in the world
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What did the Indians consider allies?
animals, trees, fishhooks, and hammers,
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How do dam workers view the land (act on it)?
subdue it rather than form symbiotic connections with it.
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What prompts them to see Indigenous cultures as ignorant or backward?
same lack of understanding
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What is used as an excuse to strip indigenous people of their land?
they believe that they are ignorant or backward
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What does Hannah Wing and Angel have in common?
they were both removed from their families,
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What do dam supporters not recognize?
either Indigenous nations or the land itself as inextricably linked to human and global survival.
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What do the state of their indigenous people bodies mirror?
mirrors various traumas experienced by the land and animals
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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.
The dam builders, police, soldiers, and corporations involved in the project
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True or False: people were being rewarded for doing action that could damage the environment
True
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What did the men want to build?
hydroelectric dam
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The people who wanted the dam built wanted to do what with it?
control the water
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Controlling the water means to control over what 2 things?
the population, incorporating the Tribal communities
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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)
reminders of the intergenerational trauma absorbed by the people who dwell in them
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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?)
home as more than a house so that we too may equate the planet's healing with our own
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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?
the traumas experienced by the land and animals as they feel the devastating impacts of the dam construction
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How does the construction of a dam allow for tribal communities to be controlled without their consent?
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
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How are Hannah's scars and the effect of the government/corporate control of water related?
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
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Why does Hannah experience a sense of landless or the inability to belong?
because of her mixed blood status (Anglo and Native cultures that seem to collide) and early separation from her family
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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...
map of conquered land
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How is Angel able to overcome the generational trauma and the fracturing of Hannah's psyche (and potentially her own)?
when she experiences a spiritual connection with the land during her boat trip with Dora-Rouge
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How does Angel's healing incorporate the idea of "mother earth" as a protective, restorative force?
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
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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
False, the intervening government systems that is bent on technological progress cannot provide
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Describe the conditions at Holy Strig Tow (the women arrive there after Agnes' death)
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
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What does Dora-Rouge believe is a form of home?
protesting. She wants to bring back hope through kinship and connection
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What does Hogan's depiction of Angel during and after the protest suggest?
that renewal of the land is possible
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What name do the Fat-Eaters take (rejecting the name given to them by others)?
The Beautiful People
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Solar Storms is LEAST interested in exploring indigenous worldviews about?
urban life
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What is NOT a reason the main characters undertake the long journey in Solar Storms?
to find a lost family member
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What does Solar Storms link?
family history and planetary health
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Linda Hogan most compares with the fractured land in Solar Storms to
fractured communities
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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?
land ownership
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How long has Angel been apart from her mother when she returns with her great-grandmother?
12 years
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What people "trapped themselves inside their own destruction" according to Dora-Rouge?
European settlers
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What word BEST describes the relationship between Indigenous tribes and their land?
symbiotic
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What Indigenous resource have the dam builders paved over in Solar Storms?
whitefish breeding grounds
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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?
murder of the soul
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What excuse or explanation do the dam workers make when they strip the Indigenous territories for profit?
indigenous cultures are ignorant and backward
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What do the dam builders in Solar Storms want to do MOST with the water in the dam?
make electricity
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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?
Critics use Literary theories
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What longstanding set of Philosophies emerged alongside the 1980s Environmental Justice Movement?
Marxism, Feminism, Conservationism, and Animal Rights
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What are the two most critical principles to our understanding of ecocriticism?
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
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Before the focus on Justice who were the main representatives in environmentalism?
White Males who overlooked the effects of environmental issues on Marginalized communities
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Who were the Marginalized communities White men overlooked?
Native Americans, Women, People of Color
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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
Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" (1970) and Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony" (1977)
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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.
Greta Gaard and Cheryl Glotfelty
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In addition to Social and political positions. What are other works of literature ecocriticism explores?
Philosophical, Spiritual, Psychological, and Aesthetic aspects
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What does the first wave ecocriticism focus on?
Defining and Describing a tradition of nature writing.
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What are two examples of works that advocated for cultural shifts away from anthropocentrism?
Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitare" A season in the Wilderness" and Gary Snyder's "Turtle Island"
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What does 1996 "The Ecocriticism Reader" by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm outline?
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
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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"
The matters include: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality. Lawrence Buell explains this
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What do second-wave eccritics, such as Lawrence Buell, argue and why?
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.
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What is Ecofeminism?
philosophy that emphasized the way both nature and women are treated by male-centered society
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What is one of the Major Themes in Solar Storms?
The relationship between the environment and settler colonialism
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What is an example of an ecofeminist reading of Solar Storms?
The way one looks at the government and BEEVCO company in contrast to the female protagonists
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In literary theory what is the primary focus of animal studies?
To understand and question the presence and meaning of animals in literature.
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Which fields connect to animal studies?
Humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences
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Which character in Solar Storms embodies the intersection of animal, man, and spirit?
Wolverine
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In Bush’s and Dora’s stories which character is a creator figure?
Beaver
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How does Timothy Cresswell define "place"?
As central to forms of struggle and resistance, necessary for identity and belonging
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In environmental literature what does "place imagination" refer to?
A significance of how characters connect to their environments and cultural association of place.
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What increases concern for a site according to Lawrence Buell?
The more well kept a site feels as a place, the greater the concern for its potential violation.
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What are two tools useful for analyzing environmental place in literary?
D.W. Meinig’s “The Beholding Eye” and Yi-Fu Tuan’s “Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective."
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What different ways do local and global communities view water?
As nature, habitat, a system of scientific processes, a problem, potential wealth, or a place of historical significance
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What disciplines are included in environmental place theories
Anthropology, sociology, narratology, phenomenology, and geography
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What is the difference between "space" and "place" to Yi-Fu Tuan?
Place becomes meaningful, while space is cold or exploitable.
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In Solar Storms what environmental threat is highlighted?
The impact of hydro dam projects on water and ecosystems
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What do Indigenous climate studies reflect according to Kyle Powys Whyte?
Memories and knowledges from Indigenous peoples' living birthrights
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How does the works of Indigenous writing address climate change?
They suggest ways to correct anthropogenic climate change and affirm Indigenous presence
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What is the importance of Indigenous writings, according to Daniel Heath Justice?
It helps cancel out and bridges gaps between communities and other-than-human beings
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Angel's Northern birth country borders Canada and
Minnesota
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What type of novel is Solar Storms
bildungsroman, refers to a coming of age story
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Who is MOST responsible for Angel's childhood experiences in foster care?
Hannah Wing
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Interactions between Bush, Dora-Rouge, and Agnes help Angel develop her
understanding of self
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The reservoir expansion project in the North country serves as a Solar Storm's
conflict
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Angel's dreams of medicinal plants and ability to see through water are directly triggered by her
demanding canoe journey
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Where does Agnes die?
Two-Town
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Hannah's death causes Angel to feel
Compassionate, Angel understands her mother's turmoil when witnessing her mental struggles
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Bush's home, Fur Island is destroyed because of
the hydro dam project
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Why does Angel testify for Native American communities after her experiences in the North country?
She believes humanity will eventually learn to protect the earth
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Why is Angel's bathroom sink reflection about her skin graft significant to her character development?
She realizes seemingly mismatched ideas are unified when whole
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Why does Angel feel disoriented at the Hungry Mouth of Water?
Time does not feel chronological
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Angel analyzes the natural world by
posing a series of questions
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What feeling does Dora-Rouge and John Husk associate with nature?
love, due to ancestry's deep connection to natural objects
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How do Bush's stories about Hannah and Wolverine affect Angel?
She learns to deconstruct her generational trauma.
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Bush and the Old Man believe the power of song can
create healing connections
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Who facilitates Angel's delivery/birth?
Ruby Shawl
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Hannah's delivery in a run-down house during a harsh winter is a comparison to her
negligent childrearing skills
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Why does Henriet choose to scar herself physically?
She wants to demonstrate resilience against adversities. Shows her mental fortitude and enhances Angel's character development
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What childhood memory does Dora-Rouge recall as she travels the river?
being separated from her younger sister and hearing of her death
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Many people flock to North House in search of?
silver
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Which item does Agnes receive from John Husk in a package sent to North House?
her bear coat
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In Solar Storms, which animal does the group see stuck in the mudflats?
Moose
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Which feeling BEST describes Mr. Oreson's attitude towards the women at Two-Town?
Friendliness, reverence, hostility, disappointment, suspicion
Suspicion, in part due to increasing conflicts between native peoples and BEEVCO
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Angel performs a kind of ceremony to cleanse her grief by?
floating in water
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Angel, Bush, and Agnes believe they were evicted as a result of?
Bush's public protest against the dams
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John Husk's letter sent to Two-Town reveals that
The women's letter to him was intercepted, as the letter is addressed Agnes, meaning the letter to John Husk telling him about Agnes' death was intercepted as he was not aware of her death.
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Angel's acceptance that her mother will die is shown when?
She opens the doors of the house, which is done so DEATH can enter the house
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Dora-Rouge's agreement with the water included her promise to
Release her desire to die, so she could fight to protect the water
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In Solar Storms, which character's soul does Tulik believe has been reincarnated as Aurora?
his grandfather, and he calls her "Totsohi" or "Storm"
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How does Angel helps motivate people like Ms. Nett and Mr. Orenson to help the protests?
spreading awareness in a radio interview
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Aurora becomes sick and receives aid in Chinobe when
soldiers throw teargas into the Two-Town post
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Which world describes the court's treatment of Angel and Tulik during their testimony?
disdain or derision
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Why does Angel travel Two-Town after the dam construction is stopped?
to attend Dora-Rouge's death
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At what age was Angel placed in foster care?
Five, after her mother physically abused her
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Why does Angel decide to return to her birthplace?
to reunite with her mother, Hannah Wing
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Why does Angel steal from her foster homes?
to make up for lost affection
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What is Dora-Rouge's late husband's name?
Luther
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Why does Dora-Rouge accompany Bush and Angel?
to return to her homeland
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Whom does Dora-Rogue meet when they reach the north?
Tulik, a relative
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What does Agnes ask Angel to do after she dies?
give her body to the animals, so she can become part of nature and her body can serve the animals
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Who takes in Hannah and tries to help her?
Bush - Hannah is Harold and Loretta's daughter
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Who helps Angel bury Hannah?
Bush
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Bush was originally from?
Oklahoma
Bush came to Adam's Rib after she married Harold
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What is Loretta's signature scent?
almond
Dora-Rogue later recognizes it as cyanide
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Loretta's tribe was called?
Elk Islander, who were starved by colonists
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What animal carcass was Loretta's tribe forced to eat?
Deer, which was poisoned
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From whom does Angela inherit her plant-dreaming abilities?
Ek, Dora-Rouge's mother
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LaRue fought in what war?
Vietnam War
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What job does LaRue have?
taxidermist, selling the reassembled skeletons that Bush does to museums
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Which character from Solar Storms would be considered a style influencer today?
Frenchie, the most materialist and style oriented of the people in Adam's Rib
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Which lake claimed the life of Frenchie's daughter?
Hungry Mouth of Water in Lake Grand, when she stumbles after drinking too much
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LaRue floated away on a broken piece of land and eventually ended up at?
Fur Island
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Which character was heavily opposed to Tulik and Dora-Rouge's romance?
Auntie, because Dora-Rouge was a distant cousin of Tulik
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Who provided the funds to release Angela's truck from the impound?
Ms. Nett
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How many languages does Tommy speak?
3 languages
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Which character photographed the flooding done to Ms. Nett's home?
Bush, who sends the pictures to newspapers to raise awareness
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Frenchie is romantically interested in?
Justin LeBlanc
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Angela finds Aurora in a?
Box outside Hannah's door
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To which indigenous group does Maggie Ekoomiak belong?
Inuit people
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Solar Storms is LEAST interested in exploring Indigenous worldviews about?
Urban life
Instead it looks at family connections, water, natural world, and changing landscapes
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Linda Hogan MOST compares with the fractured land in Solar Storms to?
Fractured communities, specifically tribal communities who are shown as victims of political and environmental distress
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What concept does Hogan's depiction of "sagging, drooping buildings and electric poles swallowed by land, soon after their installation" MOST critique?
Critiquing the concept of land ownership
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Which placed does Solar Storms describe as "weary houses....strung along...in a line...all of them....dark and brown and dreary"?
Poison, the houses symbolize the intergenerational trauma of the people who lived in them
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How long has Angel been apart from her mother when she returns to her great-grandmother?
12 years
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Which group of people "trapped themselves inside their own destruction," according to Dora-Rogue?
European settlers
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What word BEST describes the relationship between Indigenous tribes and their land? symbiotic, synergistic, matriarchal, reverent, fractured
Symbiotic, as they understand the land and everything on it are equal to them
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What Indigenous resource have the dam builders paved over in Solar Storms?
Whitefish breeding grounds, which is crucial for their way of living
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What excuse or explanation do the dam workers make when they strip the Indigenous territories for profit?
Indigenous cultures are ignorant and backward
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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?
murder of the soul
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What do the dam builders in Solar Storms want to do MOST with the water in the dam?
Use the power of the water for electricity
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The dam developers' desire to control the water MOST DIRECTLY ends up?
Forcing the Indigenous population into the developed or modern world
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Which of the following moments does Angel experience as healing? seeing her face on a rock cliff, hearing an old lullaby, seeing a moose sink in the mud, seeing a fish beneath the ice, finding a hidden waterfall
sees her own face on a rock cliff, Angel experiences a sense of wholeness that she has been seeking
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In Solar Storms, the wilderness in PRIMARILY represented as a place of?
Healing
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As the women journey into the wilderness, the narrative of Solar Storms becomes more
Poetic
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Hogan writes "As we traveled, we entered and began to trouble it, to pester it apart into some kind of change." What is it?
Time, making a connection between entering wilderness and time itself
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Angel says that the "oldest bond of survival" is the one between
Plants and people
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Which divide does Solar Storms MOST resist?
Human v. nature
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Angel's attitude toward the island can BEST be described as
reverent
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As Angel travels into the wilderness, she comes to understand the relationship between water and
Memory, water carries the memory of her people and all the people who lived on the land before them
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When Angel describes the protests, she says that land will be "angry land" and that it would "try to put an end to the plans for dams and drowned rivers". What literary device is the novel using?
personification
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What do the women NOT see when they arrive at Holy String Town?
a) the healing plants have been destroyed
b) all the children have left
c) The people have turned to addictions
d) the islands have become mudflats
e) machines have overrun the town
They do NOT see - All the children have left
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Dora-Rogue sees protesting as a
form of hope
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How do Indigenous people MOST view the printed word in Solar Storms?
weapons, memory aids, magic, symbols of power, freedom
Weapons, the printed word is represented by legal decrees and newspapers, all of which are used to betray and attack the Indigenous community
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The tension between the way that outsiders view the Indigenous people and the way they view themselves is BEST represented as
Past vs present
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The renewal of the Indigenous community is BEST represented by their
taking back their original name (Beautiful People vs that of Fat-Eaters)
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The main goal of ecocriticism is
examining the connection between nature and technology
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What was an issue with the early environmental justice movement?
It overlooked marginalized communities
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What was Toni Morrison's debut novel?
The Bluest Eye
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What change occurred in the ecocriticism movement in the mid-1990s?
Began to include women and black communities
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What authors were involved in the first wave ecocriticism movement?
Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm, Edward Abbey, Gary Snyder
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Which book helped define a part of the second-wave ecocriticism movement?
The Future of Environmental Criticism by Lawrence Buell in 2005
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A key innovation of second-wave ecocriticism was
including urban spaces in environmental studies
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What was NOT a major focus of second-wave ecocriticism?
nature writing
Second wave ecocriticism included: discussion of urban spaces, toxic waste management, indigenous land rights, ecological racism, and ecofeminism
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What ecocritic author identified emerging areas of ecocriticism in relation to the Global South?
Scott Slovic
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What feminist theorist coined the term ecofeminism?
Francois d'Eaubonne, who was French
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The James Bay confrontation is MOST associated with the idea of?
settler colonialism
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In Solar Storms, Dora-Rouge and Angel describe the exploitative mentality of the government and BEEVCO as a voluntary
Forgetting
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In Solar Storms, Angel describes the legacy of the dam builders as being the removal of
Spirit
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What character is an animal, a human, and a spirit in Solar Storms? Beaver, Crow, Husk, Frenchie, Wolverine
Wolverine
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What role does Beaver hold in Bush's and Dora's stories?
Creator figure, creating both the world and humanity
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In Solar Storms, what do the moose, fish, and beaver represent?
The disappearance of Indigenous values
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In Solar Storms, responses to environmental threats are shaped by place
Attachment and identity
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Environmental place theories include all of the following fields of study EXCEPT?
phenomenology, sociology, anthropology, narratology, codicology
Codicology is the study of manuscripts
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What article did Yi-Fu Tuan write in 1979?
Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective
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Place differs from space PRIMARILY because it involves
Personal connection
A space is depersonalized
A place is cherished and associated with feelings
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Which of the following writers is NOT associated with space and place theories?
Lawrence Buell, Kyle Powys Whyte, Timothy Cresswell, D.W. Meinig, Yi-Fu Tuan
Kyle Powys Whyte
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What work did Daniel Heath Justice write?
Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
