SparkNotes: A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: Quiz

1. Why does Christine go to the hospital so often?

(A) She has cancer

(B) She is a nurse

(C) She has a heart problem

(D) She drinks too much and has liver damage

2. Who is Elgin?

(A) A doctor

(B) Christine's husband and Rayona's father

(C) Christine's husband but not Rayona's father

(D) Rayona's father but not Christine's husband

3. Where does Christine want to go to kill herself?

(A) Point Defiance Park

(B) The quarry

(C) An amusement park

(D) A cliff

4. Why does Christine get a membership to Village Video?

(A) Because she just got a new VCR

(B) Because it only costs ninety-nine cents

(C) Because Rayona wants her to

(D) Because there is a specific video she wants there

5. What activity does Ida most enjoy around the house?

(A) Sewing

(B) Cleaning

(C) Listening to the radio

(D) Watching soap operas

6. What group does Rayona join on the reservation?

(A) The God Squad

(B) Teens for Christ

(C) The Committee for Christian Affairs

(D) The Mickey Mouse Club

7. Where does Rayona end up going with Father Tom?

(A) A state park

(B) Seattle

(C) A rodeo

(D) A parking lot

8. Where does Rayona meet Sky?

(A) On the reservation

(B) At Dayton's house

(C) In Seattle

(D) At the entrance to the state park

9. What job does Rayona get at Bearpaw Lake?

(A) Cook

(B) Trash collector

(C) Swim instructor

(D) Waitress

10. What does Rayona find on the ground at Bearpaw Lake?

(A) A letter

(B) A turtle

(C) A new shoe

(D) An old shoe

11. Where do Sky and Evelyn take Rayona?

(A) The circus

(B) Seattle

(C) A rodeo

(D) A foster home

12. What happens to Christine on the night the world is supposed to end?

(A) She comes home drunk

(B) She loses her religious faith

(C) She is hit by a car

(D) Dayton dumps her

13. What obligation does Lee try to avoid that Christine urges him to follow?

(A) Joining the tribal council

(B) Serving in Vietnam

(C) Participating in one of the local festivals

(D) Participating in the rodeo

14. What do Christine and Elgin first talk about when they meet?

(A) The fact that Lee is missing in action

(B) Native American culture

(C) Their parents

(D) Their childhoods

15. What happens at Point Defiance Park?

(A) Elgin and Christine break up

(B) Ida talks with Willard Pretty Dog

(C) Elgin gives Christine a ring

(D) Rayona is conceived, and Elgin proposes to Christine

16. What surprise does Christine get when she returns to the reservation for Lee's funeral?

(A) Ida tells her that Clara is her biological mother

(B) Christine learns that many people blame her for Lee's death

(C) Christine finds out Dayton is married

(D) Christine finds out Dayton was convicted of child molestation

17. What news does Christine get at the IHS during her last visit before she takes Rayona to the reservation?

(A) She has to start a new, very expensive liver medication, or she will die within six months

(B) She does not need to come back to the IHS again because she isn't really that sick

(C) She has cancer

(D) She has worn out her liver and pancreas and has about six months to live

18. What does Rayona throw away when she and her mother go to pick up Babe?

(A) A bubblegum wrapper with a boy's phone number on it

(B) The letter she finds at Bearpaw Lake

(C) A bubblegum wrapper with Evelyn's phone number on it

(D) Christine's turtle ring

19. What is Ida's biological relationship to Christine?

(A) They are sisters

(B) They are half-sisters and cousins

(C) Ida is Christine's mother

(D) Ida is Christine's aunt

20. Why is Ida allowed to keep Christine even though Clara is Christine's real mother?

(A) Tribal law says that whoever cares for a child is that child's legal parent

(B) A legal document lists Ida as Christine's mother

(C) Father Hurlburt quotes the biblical story of King Solomon, which implies that someone who really cares about a child is that child's true mother

(D) Ida threatens to blackmail Clara

21. Who is Lee's father?

(A) Lecon, Ida's father

(B) Father Hurlburt

(C) Willard Pretty Dog

(D) Dayton

22. Who visits Ida's house on the night the world is supposed to end?

(A) Elgin

(B) Father Hurlburt

(C) Lecon

(D) Willard Pretty Dog

23. When Christine moves in with Dayton, what does she find out about him?

(A) That he is an alcoholic

(B) That he actually did serve in Vietnam

(C) That he was convicted of child molestation

(D) That he writes poetry

24. When do Rayona and Ellen finally meet?

(A) When Ellen comes to eat at Evelyn's diner

(B) At a party

(C) At the rodeo

(D) At a Teens for Christ Jamboree

25. Whose place does Rayona take in the rodeo?

(A) Father Tom's

(B) Sky's

(C) Annabelle's

(D) Foxy's