100 pages 3 hours read

Drew Hayden Taylor

Motorcycles and Sweetgrass

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010

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Answer Key

Prologue-Chapter 6

Reading Check

1. A residential school; a Catholic boarding school (Prologue)

2. Lillian (Chapter 1)

3. Dakota (Chapter 3)

4. A tribal land deal and what to do with the new land (Chapter 6)

Short Answer

1. Memorizing Shakespeare is part of a punishment he has been given. (Chapter 1)

2. She gives him a pitying, disgusted look and leaves without speaking to him. (Chapter 2)

3. Lillian thinks that the job demands too much from Maggie and that she deserves to be able to focus on her own life and on her son. (Chapter 4)

4. Wayne is Maggie’s brother and Virgil’s uncle. He lives on an island by himself because he wants privacy to practice the Indigenous martial art he has created. (Chapter 5)

5. Maggie spends long hours working on behalf of the tribe, and she often fails to follow through on things like making dinner for Virgil. (Chapter 6)

Chapters 7-14

Reading Check

1. Trains (Chapter 7)

2. A church (Chapter 9)

3. A raccoon (

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