This person practices Iyengar, a disciplined form of yoga.
Who is Sonia?
100
When David and Sonia were in high school, they could not stop doing this.
What is having sex?
100
This is the ironic name of Sonia's workplace.
What is The Forest.
100
Erdrich's heritage can be traced back to these two places.
What are Germany and Native America/North Dakota?
100
"My blood drums in my ears" (459) is an example of this literary device.
What is personification?
200
Dave encounters this person first after leaving Minneapolis.
Who is the Lock n' Load shopkeeper?
200
Dave holds Sonia's legs after she tells him about this.
What is her positive pregnancy test?
200
This is the place that Sonia and Dave found privacy as teenagers.
What is the gravel pit outside of Mooreton?
200
Erdrich attended this prestigious institution.
What is Dartmouth College?
200
"Her skin has a golden undertone and her feathery blond-tipped haircut makes her head into a little sun" (454) contains this type of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
300
This person is a little too close to Sonia, in Dave's opinion.
Who is Sonia's yoga instructor?
300
Dave tells the shopkeeper at Lock n' Load that he plans to do this with the guns he buys.
What is "kill a yoga dude" (451)?
300
The yoga instructor's t-shirt has this phrase written on it when Dave first sees him.
What is "Namaste" (454)?
300
Erdrich is enrolled in this band of Chippewa Indians.
What is the Turtle Mountain Band?
300
"Hasta Namaste, Baby" has this type of narrator.
What is first-person?
400
This person's favorite feature is his/her teeth.
Who is Gene, Dave's father?
400
Dave's brother Glen has to leave his parents' house to do this.
What is pick up his daughter from debate club?
400
This is the type of gun Dave lifts to his head.
What is a Rossi?
400
Her parents worked at this institution when Erdrich was a child.
What is a Bureau of Indian Affairs School?
400
Throughout the story, Dave is aware that he is sterile. However, Sonia never knows this. Here, Erdrich employs this type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
500
Dave leaves his guns in this person's garage before returning to Minneapolis.
Who is Glen, Dave's brother?
500
After telling Sonia that he knows about her infidelity, Dave does this when she leaves for work.
What is looks at the pictures of Sonia on his desk?
500
Dave goes here to confront Sonia's yoga instructor.
Where is his reserved parking spot at The Forest?
500
The population of the Turtle Mountain Band increases by this percentage each year.
What is 20%?
500
When Dave arrives at his parents' house, his mother says, "For Pete's sake! Gene, get out here. It's Dave!" (457). "For Pete's sake" is an example of this.