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The Light in the Forest Test.
Directions: Answer the following questions in Complete sentences.
1. Why does True Son object to being returned to his white family? (chapter1)
2. Why does Half Arrow watch quietly while the guard binds True Son’s arms? (chapter4)
3. What does True Son’s crossing of the river symbolize? (chapter4)
4.Compare the reactions of Myra Butler, Aunt Kate, and Gordie to True Son on the first day of his return. (chapter 6)
5. What reason does True Son give for Aunt Kate’s “theft” of his moccasins and Indian
clothes? (chapter 8)
6. How does True Son react to Del Hardy’s departure? (chapter 8)
7. What lessons does Parson Elder try to teach True Son? (chapter 9)
8. Why are Half Arrow’s remarks about True Son’s speech patterns significant? (chapter 11)
9. Why does Half Arrow fail, but True Son succeed, in understanding Mr. Owens’ and his friends’ reaction to Little Crane’s stories? (chapter 11)
10 What is True Son’s only regret about leaving the Butler home? (Chapter 12)
15. How does True Son’s and Half Arrow’s behavior toward their relatives change because of the experience in the forest? (Chapter 13)
11. How does True Son’s dream about the Butlers influence his decision to warn the riverboat passengers of the ambush? (chapter 14)
12. How does True Son’s second crossing of the river into white territory differ from his first crossing with Colonel Bouquet and Del Hardy? (chapter 15)
13.. Throughout the novel, Richter thematically examines the search for the Spiritual Father. Neither Cuyloga nor Harry Butler, symbols of the physical or earthly father, completely accepts True Son. But True Son often refers to a third “father.” Who is this father, and how may he eventually bring comfort to the alienated boy?
14. Choose any three trips or journeys True Son makes during the novel and compare what he EXPECTS to find on each journey with what he actually DOES find.
15. What is the theme of Light in the Forest.