Solar Storms, Chapters 17-18

Who believed the ancestors returned in the new bodies of children?

The Fat-Eaters

Who studied Aurora for a few weeks to see who she might be?

Tulik, Auntie, and Luce

Who had a birthmark at her hairline?

Ek

Who said, "I love her whoever she is"?

Dora-Rouge

Who had a book made of thin birch bark cooked into a stew of salt and ash?

Ek

What did Ek's book include?

Diagrams of plants, their healing parts, and the best times of day to gather them

Who said she didn't like the idea of returned souls and preferred newness and freedom of being?

Angel

What does Tulik begin calling Aurora?

My grandfather

What is "my grandfather's" real name?

Totoshi

What does Totoshi mean?

Storm

What was Totoshi revered for?

His intelligence, generosity, and kindness, his keeping of peace

What finally stops Tulik from calling Aurora "my grandfather"?

Changing diapers

What did Tulik tie around Aurora's neck?

Totoshi's flint

The stone around Aurora's neck made her into the man who...

dreamed sickness and foretold the measles, who knew the songs of the water and beaver

Why is Angel excited to see John Husk?

He might bring Tommy with him

What day was John Husk supposed to arrive?

The fifth

Why might John Husk not have made it?

Security forces put up a roadblock and no one could travel Highway 17 or by train

What does Angel look at every night to measure the amount?

Dora-Rouge's sleeping potion

What is adding to Dora-Rouge's heavy grief?

She cannot find the plants she needs because they are under water, it's one more sacred thing missing from the world

What do the women learn about John Husk and Tommy?

They were turned back and intercepted by the security force

Which animals carry the seeds and burrs of plants in Angel's dreams?

Birds and wolves

Who said, "Dreams rest in the earth"?

Tulik

Who goes with Angel to harvest plants?

Tulik

What do they do with the plants when they get them home?

Dry them, boil them, mix them with fat

What does the mikka plant do?

Took down the heat of inflammation

What does the scilla plant do?

Opens the body for childbirth

What song does Angel say is the only one she remembers when Tulik tells her to sing to the leaf?

Helene's death song

Who is the woman who would replace illness with a song of mending?

Geneva

Around what age is Geneva?

Forty years old

What do they call Geneva's young apprentice?

Jo

What is one of Jo's specialties?

Treating bronchitis

What did the old man is the square little house suffer from?

Maybe a stroke

What does Angel ask after they visited the old man?

To teach her the song they sang

What does Angel call their family unit?

A tribe

What are some of the gifts people have in their small trive?

Hunting, decocting plants, reading the ground of signs of hares, setting bones, plant dreamer, knowing the land, mixtures

Who was good at setting bones?

Auntie

What happened to Angel that taught her another of Bush's gifts?

She spilled a kettle of hot lard on her arm

What did Angel do after getting burned?

Ran into the lake

Who tears up because Angel is in pain?

Tulik

Where does Auntie go to retrieve Bush when Angel burns herself?

The meetinghouse

What does Bush do to help Angel's burn?

Talks to it to reduce the heat

What does Tulik go find to help with the fever?

Three-leaf, a plant that looked like clover

What does Tulik smell like?

Fresh wood and sunlight

What did they start a relay to get from Geneva?

A salve that would help Angel's burn

What does Angel wish she could talk away?

Loneliness and scars

Who is the child of many parents?

Aurora

Who is one of the creators of life that lived on the island?

Ammah

What does Ammah do?

She fed all life and protected it

What insect's wings shine translucent blue with the moonlight?

A dragonfly

Ammah is also the protector of...

spring eggs, abandoned nests of winter, the unborn, promis

What toppled one of the tress on Ammah's Island?

A five-hundred-pound eagle's nest

What is also on the island that Dora-Rouge possessed some of?

A jar of corn seeds from the south

Angel describes Ammah's Island as a place of...

hope and beauty

Why is no one allowed to step foot on Ammah's Island?

No person can trample hope or violate the future

Why is Ammah a silent god who rarely speaks?

All things grow from rich and splendid silence

Whose ideas reached through the narrow wires and voltages and watts and kilowatts into the virgin territory of the north?

Thomas Edison

Which animals were confused by electricity?

Migratory animals who flew or swam by light

How is the new electric light described?

Harsh and overly bright

What does Tulik say about the new lighting?

It looks lonely

Why are some of the electric poles leaning?

The workers from warmer climates cemented them into unsolid ground due to the permafrost not having thawed

How do the spindly trees look in the unnatural light?

Naked and unreal

Who wanted the electricity?

The people at Holy String Town

What undesired effects does the new electric light have?

People now see what is dirty in their house, the age lines on their faces, their scars and marks

What did the people used to use to fuel their lamps?

Caribou fat or fish oil

What does Angel mention as other ways she had seen light?

Fireflies, lightning, eels, the blue of swamp fire

What does Angel regard as a miraculous invention?

The radio

Part of the fast-moving darkness was the desire of those who wanted to...

conquer the land, the water, the rivers

What does Angel say loneliness is?

The way she misses Tommy, the enormous river now gone, drowned willows and alders, three dead lynx, ten thousand drowned caribou, the hydro-electric damming

What does Angel say about the light given by gods verses the electric light?

What was precious became base metal, defiled and dangerous elements

Who rejected the electricity?

A smart village of Crees to the east

What did the Inuits say would happen if they had electricity?

The warm buildings would thaw the frozen world, their children would weaken and lose heart, the people would find no reason to live

Comparing themselves to the sleepers on that beautiful island, Angel and Tulik prefer...

darkness

What is Tulik's most prized possession after Mika and Ek's book?

His blond radio with cardboard under one of its feet

When the dog hears the radio, which ad is he compared to?

The old Victola ad

Which animal does Luce say dance and shake because they love life and have zest?

The ostrich

Which radio program came on at noon?

Indian Time

Why did Angel describe the radio as expensive?

Because they had to feed the people who came to listen to it

Why does Angel want to go back to Adam's rib?

Tulik's house is filled with talk, smoke, the smell of bacon and potatoes frying

Where does Angel find Bush?

Sitting alone in the trees in a small camp she made

What does Angel now welcome at Tulik's?

When the others were gone and she could stay home or almost alone

What does Angel ask for when the family goes to the store?

Two magazines

Who has grown attached to Angel?

Grandson

What does Angel long for?

The world of teenagers

Why were the teenagers in Two-Town and Adam's Rib different from other teenagers Angel had know?

They left home to work, been away at school, or were in pain from the aguish disease of rapid change

What does Angel list as things she wants in Chapter 18?

A Big Mac, Jo to live closer, her old life back, her own room

When Angel turns up the radio, what artists does she list?

The Iron Butterfly, Mick Jagger, Tammy Wynette, Sly and the Family Stone

What color is the glass plate Angel puts in the cupboard?

Green

What interrupts the music Angel is listening to?

Little spots of news, commercials for saws and Jeeps, a proposal from Tony to Loretta

What kind of hope makes Angel's heart skip a beat?

Indian hope

What kind of dancing to the old women do?

Bent-knee

How does Angel feel when dancing with the elders?

Off-rhythm and timid

What does Auntie buy in town?

A hot plate

What does Tulik say Auntie should cook on the hot plate?

Chicken

Why does Tulik say he liked the fried chicken better the other way?

They might forget about the life of fire

Why did two building drop, sag down, and vanish into sinkholes?

The weather was unusually warm and created mud

What also disappeared on the day the buildings sank?

Ammah's Island, where birds nested and hope roosted

In the night, Angel hears what animals roaming around?

Badgers, porcupines, and skunks

Who has taken the bear coat?

Grandson

What does Angel understand about the howling of dogs and wolves?

She understood how it felt to be part of two things, away from your pack

What does Angel say when thinking about Bush?

How it had been for her all the years without friends, a soulmate, sister, brother, or lover