Elatsoe

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. Which quality or qualities of Ellie’s make(s) her compare herself to Icarus?

A) Her intelligence and courage

B) Her tendency to push boundaries

C) Her ability to visit the underworld

D) Her lack of interest in romantic relationships

2. What lesson about family does Ellie learn by the end of the novel?

A) People don’t automatically care about her just because they are her relatives.

B) The magical abilities she has inherited can make her an outsider in her family.

C) She can’t always let her family’s desire to protect her limit her choices.

D) Older relatives have to earn her respect in the same way younger ones do.

3. What is Ellie’s primary feeling about being Lipan Apache?

A) Indifference

B) Pride

C) Ambivalence

D) Shame

4. What do Ellie and Jay have in common?

A) They are close to their families and willing to sacrifice to help others.

B) They are willing to sacrifice to help others and are impulsive, sentimental people.

C) They are impulsive, sentimental people, but they are not interested in romantic relationships.

D) They are not interested in romantic relationships, but they are close to their families.

5. What do the details about Allerton’s wealth, his community involvement, and his conventional good looks show?

A) There is something wrong with rich, good-looking people.

B) Like most people, Allerton is a mixture of “good” and “bad.”

C) Ellie is suspicious of Allerton for the wrong reasons.

D) Allerton has formidable social power.

6. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of what Kirby represents?

A) The importance of respect for nonhuman creatures

B) Ellie’s great capacity for loving both people and animals

C) Ellie’s family’s special powers and relationship to the dead

D) The danger of meddling in things we don’t fully understand

7. Which is the most reasonable interpretation of what Willowbee represents?

A) The greed and destructiveness of colonialism

B) The deceptive nature of small towns

C) The shallowness of modern society

D) The mixture of good and bad in everyone

8. As depicted in Elatsoe, what is one important reason the Lipan Apache fear the ghosts of humans who have died young?

A) They can cause ghost-sickness.

B) They might desire vengeance.

C) They might try to possess someone.

D) They can pollute important ceremonies.

9. Which is the best description of the dreams that Ellie has during the story?

A) They are a way for the intuitive part of Ellie’s mind to put the mystery’s clues together.

B) They indicate to the reader that Ellie is overwhelmed by her responsibilities.

C) They reveal subconscious aspects of Ellie’s psychology and personality.

D) They are prophetic and connect her to a world beyond the ordinary human world.

10. Why is Allerton symbolically associated with leeches?

A) He is an incompetent doctor who uses primitive methods.

B) His human body is just a disguise for the same monster Six-Great fought.

C) He is sucking the life out of others to “feed” himself.

D) His town, Willowbee, is symbolically associated with stagnant water.

11. For most of the novel, which of these characters understands the least about the danger presented by human ghosts?

A) Vivian

B) Ellie

C) Lenore

D) Six-Great

12. Which thematic motif is most clearly supported by Ellie’s dreams about Trevor, the story of Six-Great’s disappearance, and Ellie’s feelings about Kirby’s disappearance?

A) Prejudice and Privilege

B) Family Legacies and Expectations

C) Justice Versus Vengeance

D) Grief and Letting Go

13. Which thematic motif is most clearly supported by Willowbee, Allerton, and Ellie’s description of what happens when she and Jay go to the mall?

A) Grief and Letting Go

B) Prejudice and Privilege

C) Family Legacies and Expectations

D) Justice Versus Vengeance

14. Which thematic motif is most clearly supported by Trevor’s request to Ellie, the comparisons of Ellie to Six-Great, and Ellie’s parents’ cooperation in getting Ellie to Willowbee?

A) Prejudice and Privilege

B) Grief and Letting Go

C) Justice Versus Vengeance

D) Family Legacies and Expectations

15. Which thematic motif is most clearly supported by Ellie’s concerns with the emissaries, the actions of the emissary who causes havoc at the mansion, and Ellie’s parents’ concerns about the underworld and human ghosts?

A) Justice Versus Vengeance

B) Family Legacies and Expectations

C) Grief and Letting Go

D) Prejudice and Privilege

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. How does Ellie’s disbelief that Trevor’s ghost would behave violently at the Allerton mansion convey important ideas about vengeance?

2. What is ironic about the fate Allerton subjects many vampires to?