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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Victor convince the person to assist him with the incident with Dirty Joe at the carnival?
(a) He says that Dirty Joe is communicating with dead ancestors.
(b) He says that the situation is a public safety concern.
(c) He says that Indians have no problems with gravity.
(d) He says that Dirty Joe should be punnished.

2. Who are the Urban Indians?
(a) It is an Indian gang.
(b) The Indians that leave the reservation.
(c) They are Indian activists.
(d) Those who adopt the white ways of life.

3. Why does Victor take James to the doctor when he is a baby?
(a) Because James does not cry.
(b) Because James is not crawling.
(c) Because James has an ear ache.
(d) Because James is constipated.

4. Why is Victor's friend the host of the party at the lake?
(a) Because he is supplying the beer.
(b) Because he is celebrating his new job.
(c) Because his family owns the land.
(d) Because it is his birthday.

5. What does Victor not understand in the eighth grade?
(a) Why Indian boys are rounded up when white boys throw rocks through a store window.
(b) Why white children are not arrested for curfew and children of color are.
(c) Why girls shoplift when they have the money to afford the items they steal.
(d) Why girls starve themselves through anorexia and bulemia when he is involuntarily starving on the reservation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor imagine that an Indian invents?

2. What do Victor and the waitress discuss at her place?

3. Where does Victor meet a flirtatious waitress?

4. Where does Victor have to travel to deal with his father's ashes after his death?

5. What does the bingo game that Victor discusses after his experience with the waitress represent to him?

(see the answer key)

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