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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Victor's aunt's experience with a mouse?
(a) She finds the mouse in a package of cornmeal.
(b) It runs up her pant leg.
(c) It jumps out of her purse.
(d) It runs across the kitchen counter.

3. How do Victor and his friend describe the drug they take?
(a) It is medicinal.
(b) It is a form of escapism.
(c) It is Indian and very spiritual.
(d) It is natural.

4. What is Victor's equation for survival?
(a) Survival = Anger X Imagination.
(b) Survival = Ingenuity X Stamina.
(c) Survival = Skills X Stamina.
(d) Survival = Determination X Imagination.

5. What does Victor consider censorship in the third grade?
(a) When he is asked to return to his desk and be quiet after talking about life on the reservation.
(b) When a story he writes about his family life is taken away.
(c) When his drawing is confiscated.
(d) When his comic book is taken away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dirty Joe's condition at the carnival?

2. What happens to Victor after a night of drinking when his white lover leaves him?

3. Victor falls back on drinking the day his white lover returns, but what does he attempt to do that day?

4. What does Victor's father describe while starting a car in the winter?

5. What does Nora say about the Indian people?

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