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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Victor after a night of drinking when his white lover leaves him?
(a) He gets into a bar fight.
(b) He vomits.
(c) The bartender refuses to serve him anymore.
(d) He passes out.

2. Why is Victor's friend able to afford beer for the party at the lake?
(a) He has a job.
(b) He sells some bootleg liquor.
(c) He inherits land that is used by large corporations.
(d) He receives a check from the government.

3. Victor falls back on drinking the day his white lover returns, but what does he attempt to do that day?
(a) To be productive.
(b) To start a job search.
(c) To go on the wagon.
(d) To help a friend move.

4. What is Victor's advice regarding past and future skeletons in your life?
(a) To forget about them.
(b) To avoid creating future skeletons.
(c) To live a clean life.
(d) You keep yourself in the middle of the past and future skeletons.

5. 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.

6. What is Thomas Builds-a-Fire known for?
(a) Being a book worm.
(b) Being a ladies man.
(c) Walking miles a day.
(d) Telling stories.

7. How does Victor try to bond with his father?
(a) By going on motorcycle rides with him.
(b) By playing Jimi Hendrix music.
(c) By playing basketball.
(d) By talking with him about the old days.

8. Who does Victor believe destroys everything the Indians hold sacred?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) George Custer.
(c) Davy Crockett.
(d) Henry L. Dawes.

9. Where does Victor think the troubles from the reservation stem from?
(a) The crimes he and his people have to endure.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Isolation.
(d) The lack of cohesion in the Indian community.

10. What is Victor's aunt experienced at?
(a) Making pottery.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Painting.
(d) Sewing.

11. What does Victor do when the waitress flirts with him?
(a) He avoids her.
(b) He flirts back.
(c) He winks at her.
(d) He becomes offended.

12. Who is with Victor when they see Dirty Joe at the carnival?
(a) Junior.
(b) Sadie.
(c) Adrian.
(d) Thomas "Builds-the-Fire".

13. What is a hallucination that Victor and his friend have at the lake?
(a) They have visions of their dead relatives.
(b) They have visions of living in a mansion.
(c) They have visions of Indians taking vengeance on the white man.
(d) They have visions of flying.

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

15. What happens when Victor's basketball team goes to the state finals in high school?
(a) Their bus breaks down.
(b) They are one referee short.
(c) Their star player is injured.
(d) The coach is late to the game.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Victor join Alcoholics Anonymous?

2. In Chapter Five, what have Victor and Adrian temporarily refrained from?

3. Who does Victor invite to take a drug with him?

4. Which is a story that Thomas Builds-a-Fire tells during his trial?

5. Why does Victor take baby James home to take care of him?

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