Prologue & Chapt 1 Flashcards
(114 cards)
1
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Great-grandmother’s name
A
Agnes
2
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Who is the narrator?
A
Angela
3
Q
What floats to Angela like a soft breeze through an open window?
A
The voice of her great-grandmother, Agnes
4
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What is Bush doing at the beginning of the prologue?
A
Gathering firewood and adding it to the stove
5
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Why does the Agnes think the house is crying?
A
There is condensation because it is cold outside and warm inside.
6
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How does Agnes describe the house in the prologue?
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Wooden, dark, spare, creaky floors
7
Q
What is Bush using to brown the oxtails?
A
suet
8
Q
Where did the oxen arrive from?
A
Flat fields of Kansas
9
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What animals had Bush hunted?
A
Fish and rabbits
10
Q
In the dream, where was the narrator fishing?
A
Lake Grand
11
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Where was the frozen man left standing?
A
The back of the Spirit River
12
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What is the name of the mother in the dream of the frozen lake?
A
Hannah Wing
13
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Which tribe had stories about the frozen heart of evil?
A
The Cree
14
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What are the three components of the frozen heart of evil?
A
Hunger, envy, greed
15
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What does the frozen heart of evil trick people into?
A
Death, illness, insanity
16
Q
How do you save a soul from the frozen heart of evil?
A
Thaw it
17
Q
What two ingredients sweeten and fatten the corn into hominy?
A
Lye and ashes
18
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What did older generations use to pack and heal wounds?
A
Eagle down
19
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What day of the week was the feast?
A
Sunday
20
Q
Who wore a miner’s headlamp?
A
Jarrell Illinois
21
Q
What is a woman’s glory?
A
Her hair
22
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How did the people think of Bush?
A
As a misplaced person
23
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Who did Bush come to marry?
A
Harold, Agnes’s son
24
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Why did the people come to the banquet?
A
Mourning was their common ground
25
What kind of people lived on Fur Island and returned there each night?
The night-wind people
26
What three items did Agnes say they ate?
Moose meat, rice, and fish
27
What color dress did Frenchie wear?
Blue
28
Who is Agnes's mother?
Dora-Rouge
29
Who sent Angela back to her mother?
The county
30
What did Bush do to herself during the banquet?
She cut her hair
31
What four items of Angela's items were given to the diners?
Handmade blanket, t-shirt, shoes, and socks
32
What else did she give away?
Quilts, hawk feathers, carved fish decoys, fishing poles, rifle, silverware, what she was wearing
33
Who struggled to open the frozen door when it was time to leave?
John Husk
34
What was Bush arrested for?
Stealing beaver pelts from trespassing trappers
35
What was the most important thing the diners took away that night?
Bush's sorrow
36
What is singing at the end of the prologue?
Agnes's bear coat
37
How does Agnes remember the sky looking when she walked home after the banquet?
Like a bowl of milk
38
At what age did Angela return to Adam's Rib?
Seventeen
39
Which ferry did Angela take to return to Adam's Rib?
Tinselman's Ferry
40
Which trappers emptied the land of beaver and fox?
French
41
Tons of fur was traded at which post?
Old LeDoux
42
Besides the French, which other nationalities passed through this north?
British, Norwegians, and Swedes
43
Where did the old men who Bush took Hannah Wing to live?
The Hundred-Year-Old Road
44
What do the old people call Fur Island?
The navel of the world
45
Who is the woman in the canoe?
Bush
46
Who is Angela going to meet?
Agnes Iron
47
What is Angela's last name?
Angela Jensen
48
How are Angela and Agnes related?
Agnes is Angela's great-grandmother
49
How much money did Agnes send Angela?
Fifty-five dollars
50
What did the first sign Angela saw read?
Auto Parts, Boat Repairs
51
How many bags of belongings did Angela have?
Two
52
What is the name of the road they travelled to get to Agnes's house?
Poison Road
53
What rained along that road whent he French were there?
Tiny fish
54
Who originally built the weary houses on Poison Road?
Missionaries
55
What month is it during the first chapter?
September
56
What holds Agnes's glasses together?
A safety pin
57
What kind of brooch does Agnes wear?
A cheap, silver bear broach with a black stone for an eye
58
What is wrong with the right side of Angela's face?
It is scarred
59
What does Angela carry in her purse?
Money, makeup, and an unknown baby picture
60
Where did Angela grow up?
In foster homes
61
Why does Angela carry the baby picture?
She pretends it was her
62
Which foster home was Angela's favorite?
The yellow house in the middle of a dry prairie
63
Whose initials are tattooed on Angela's left arm?
Lonnie Faro
64
What is tattooed on one of Angela's knuckles?
An ink-blue cross
65
What is tattooed on Angela's thigh?
A cross
66
Which two things shaped and moved Angela?
Fear and anger
67
What color is the room of anger?
Fire-red
68
What did Angela tell herself she would not do before arriving at Adam's Rib?
Run away
69
What sits outside Agnes's front door?
A large, red-covered chair
70
What did the first women at Adam's Rib call themselves?
The Abandoned Ones
71
Which tribes to the Abandoned Ones represent?
Cree, Anishnabe, Fat-Eaters, Chickasaw
72
What is the name of the taxidermist?
LaRue Marks Time
73
Where did LaRue Marks Time live?
Old Fish Hook
74
Where did Rue recently return from?
Vietnam
75
What massacre is referenced in chapter one?
Wounded Knee
76
What do some people say the older inhabitants are keeping?
The Ghost Dance alive
77
Who rubs ice on his face and has a young wife?
Wiley
78
Who fished and hunted to provide for the elders?
Tommy Grove
79
How many languages does Tommy Grove speak?
Three
80
What year is it?
1972
81
What are chilblains?
Agnes's term for feeling cold all of the time
82
How is Dora-Rouge related to Angela?
Great-great-grandmother
83
What features does Angela have that make her resemble her mother?
Walnut skin and red hair
84
Who is Dora-Rouge's gone husband?
Luther
85
What animal is used as a comparison for Dora-Rouge's nose?
An owl
86
What name has Dora-Rouge for Angela?
The girl who would return
87
What items are on Dora-Rouge's table?
Antlers and a grass rope
88
What does Dora-Rouge hate?
When Agnes talks about her as if she wasn't there
89
Why is the bathroom sink stained red?
The iron-rich water
90
What is all that Angela has from her mother?
Her scars
91
What year was Hannah Wing born?
1939
92
What does John Husk bring in that evening?
Two large fish
93
How tall is John Husk?
Five-foot-five
94
How many winters did John Husk spend in the near-Arctic north?
Two
95
What was John Husk's main desire?
To prove the world was alive and that animals felt pain
96
What is Dora-Rouge's desire?
To return to the Fat-Eaters to die
97
Where did Angela live for most of her life?
Tulsa, Oklahoma
98
Why does John Husk squint?
He had snow blindness in 1929
99
When does Agnes believe Angela's story begins?
Around the time of the killing of the wolves
100
What allusion to the bible is made in chapter one?
Genesis
101
Who is Angela's grandfather?
Harold
102
Who was he married to?
Bush
103
Who did he leave Bush for?
Loretta Wing
104
What year did Loretta arrive?
1938
105
Why was Harold in Oklahome?
To work in an oil field
106
Which people did Loretta Wing come from?
The Elk Islanders
107
How far away is Elk Island?
30 miles east
108
What did Harold use to oil his hair?
Wild Root
109
What does Agnes say left Loretta because of abuse?
Love, belief, conscience, anything
110
What was Harold doing the last time Agnes saw him?
Running toward the ferry with Loretta Wing
111
What do Loretta and Hannah both smell like?
Bitter almonds, cyanide
112
Who loved Hannah?
Bush
113
What does Luther say to do to cattle to keep them in the current weather?
Creosote them
114
To which religion does John Husk compare the women's philosophy of life?
Buddhism
