Instructions: Please select one question from each category for this assessment.
Knowledge/ Understanding Questions
1. Help someone understand Daunis’s break-up with Jamie.
2. How does the novel Firekeeper’s Daughter end? Was there anything particularly
important in the ending?
3. What is firekeeping? Is Firekeeper’s Daughter a suitable title for this novel?
4. There are many references to the Blanket Party and residential schools in the
novel Firekeeper’s Daughter. Explain what you know about either the Blanket
Party or the history of residential schools
5. Using the literary texts covered in this course as examples, explain the main
types of conflict that can be found in a literary work.
Thinking/ Inquiry Questions

1. The novel, Firekeeper’s Daughter, touches on several different issues. Discuss
the implicit (implied) lessons writer Lloyd Jones might have been trying to convey
for one of the following: justice, community, identity.
2. Would you recommend that a teenager read Firekeeper’s Daughter? Why or why
not? Provide solid literary reasons and your response must demonstrate a sense
of audience.
3. Having read the novel, Firekeeper’s Daughter, consider any two major incidents
of irony. What types of irony are there? What exactly makes the situation ironic?
4. Consider the main characters in the seven texts we studied. How does any one
character overcome both an internal and external conflict.
Application Questions
1. What two significant similarities did you notice between/among the literary texts
covered in this course?
2. Having read several texts over the course of this semester/term, what is one
important lesson you learned and how do you think you can apply it to your life
going forward?
3. Of all the protagonists covered, which one can you relate to the most and why?
To which antagonist are you the most sympathetic? Why?
4. If you could give any one character a word of advice (not facts or details
from later in the story), what would you tell them and why?