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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the bingo game that Victor discusses after his experience with the waitress represent to him?
(a) Indians are playing the game of life that is stacked against them.
(b) That everyone finds happiness but him.
(c) That he is so far behind to win in life.
(d) That he does not have the tools he needs to elevate his status.

2. Why is Victor's father against fighting for the United States in the Vietnam War?
(a) Because he does not consider himself an American citizen.
(b) Because he does not agree with the reasons why the United States goes to war.
(c) Because the government kills so many Indians in the past.
(d) Because he considers the Vietnamese like the Indians.

3. Why does Victor take baby James home to take care of him?
(a) Because he ends up on welfare anyway.
(b) Because he is friends with the baby's father.
(c) Because he is the baby's father.
(d) Because there are no immediate relatives.

4. How does Thomas Builds-a-Fire help Victor when they are children?
(a) He lets Victor copy his homework when Victor forgets it.
(b) He helps free Victor from an underground wasp nest.
(c) He fights off some bullies.
(d) He pulls Victor from a river.

5. Why are the Indians burning down a house?
(a) Because it makes a really big bon fire.
(b) Because it has to do with the white men.
(c) Because they want to clear the land.
(d) Because it is a safety hazard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor demonstrate about the whole situation on the reservation?

2. What news does Samuel-builds-a-fire receive at work?

3. Why is Victor punishing Dirty Joe at the carnival?

4. What happens to Samuel-builds-a-fire on the railroad tracks?

5. How does Victor play with the BB gun when he and Adrian are together?

(see the answer key)

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