There There

Reading Check and Short Answer questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Prologue

Reading Check

1. With what symbol does Tommy Orange open the novel?

2. What is the “land-deal meal” (Prologue)?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Who are “Urban Indians”?

2. How was urbanization a tool of assimilation and erasure of tribal people?

Paired Resource

“Item of the Week: Indian Head Test Card”

• A description from the Sarnoff Collection within the archives of the College of New Jersey
• Connects to the themes of Indigenous Identity and Violence Caused by Colonialism.
• Seeing this image, how does it embody the portrayals of Indigenous Americans in the Prologue to There There?

Part 1

Reading Check

1. To what part of his identity does Tony connect “the Drome”?

2. What project does Dene want to work on?

3. What was happening when Opal lived on Alcatraz?

4. How does Edwin begin to communicate with his father?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Why does Maxine think Tony looks different and how does this make Tony feel?

2. What does Octavio want Tony to do?

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