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From Lost Highway
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Discussion Questions On Tekakwitha
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Preface
1. How did Tekakwitha’s mother (an Algonquin) end up among the Iroquois?
Book One
2. How did Tekakwitha's mother die? Who took care of Tekakwitha after she lost her immediate family at age four?
3. What were the physical after-effects of smallpox on Tekakwitha? How did the physical after-effects of smallpox effect Tekakwitha's place in her Iroquois community?
4. How does the narrator characterize Tekakwitha as a girl?
5. What happens when her aunts try to get her to marry?
6. How does Fr. Jacques de Lamberville meet her? Why did he decide to instruct her? Why does Lamberville baptize her using the name Catherine?
7. Why did Lamberville want Tekakwitha to transfer from her Iroquois village to the mission of St. Francois Xavier du Sault? How did the French view this mission?
8. How does her uncle react to her departure?
Book Two
9. Why does Cholenec, the writer of the biography, take Tekakwitha under his wing?
10. How does Tekakwitha spend her days at the mission? How does Tekakwitha prepare for confession?
11. Tekakwitha receives an unusual reward for her piety. Which one? How does she react?
12. How does Tekakwitha behave while she is on her first winter hunt with her sister and brother-in-law? Does she like being on the hunt?
13. How does Tekakwitha celebrate Easter?
14. What does Anastasie talk about while Tekakwitha is scrutinizing her past life for faults and sins?
15. Cholenec claims that Anastasie could not give Tekakwitha all she needed and therefore God sent her another companion. How did this companion different from Anastasie? Before this companion met Tekakwitha she had a conversion experience during a hunt. What happened?
16. After she becomes Tekakwitha’s companion and friend, how do the two women spend their time together?
17. Why did Tekakwitha’s adopted sister want her to get married? What arguments does she use to persuade Tekakwitha that this is the right thing to do?
18. What is Cholenec’s advice for Tekakwitha? Why does Tekakwitha not want to get married?
19. What does Tekakwitha do when everyone else goes on the next hunt?
She "announced that she would never go back" (364) to the woods for the hunt, where she would be "deprived of all the spiritual aids... available to her in the village." She stays in the village for the sake of her soul even though it means scarce food for her body. She tells Father Cholenec "that the body enjoys the woods, but the soul is bored there and dies of hunger" (365). See 364-365.
20. Cholenec was clearly impressed the Iroquois converts performed so many and rather strict penances. What kinds of activities does he describe? Does he approve of every activity?
21. What special gift does Cholenec give Tekakwitha? What vow did Tekakwitha take on the Feast of the Annunciation?
22. Tekakwitha continued her regime of penances but added new form of self-punishments, one at the suggestion of Anastasia, another in imitation of the Jesuit saint Louis de Gonzaga. What were those new self-tortures? Did Cholenec know about them?
23. What makes Cholenec think that Tekakwitha has a sensitive conscience?
