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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Victor's philosophy toward drinking?
(a) The only way to drink is to binge.
(b) He drinks to make his life seem normal.
(c) He drinks to forget his past.
(d) If he drinks one more beer, then everything in his life is better.

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

3. According to Victor, what is it difficult to be on the reservation?
(a) Traditional.
(b) Successful.
(c) Optimistic.
(d) Authentic.

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

5. What does Victor think about Indian names?
(a) Their names make them hard to assimilate.
(b) Their names honor their heritage.
(c) Their names have much honor.
(d) Their names are fraught with a bad reputation.

6. What happens when Victor and the waitress try to become intimate?
(a) Victor begins to shake.
(b) Victor says he has an appointment he forgets about.
(c) Victor starts telling jokes.
(d) Victor becomes angry.

7. What do onlookers do when they see Dirty Joe at the carnival?
(a) They get away from him.
(b) They ignore him.
(c) They gawk and point.
(d) They start shouting at him.

8. What is Dirty Joe's condition at the carnival?
(a) He is drunk.
(b) He is delusional.
(c) He is belligerent.
(d) He is asleep.

9. What do Victor's uncles do at the holiday party?
(a) They brutally fight each other.
(b) They try to drink more than the other.
(c) They challenge each other to a race.
(d) They start a large fire.

10. What "crime" does Thomas Builds-a-Fire commit twenty years ago?
(a) Indecent exposure.
(b) Public drunkeness.
(c) Writing grafitti.
(d) He holds the postmaster at gunpoint.

11. What does Victor do after his parents pass out from drinking too much alcohol?
(a) He goes out to meet his friends.
(b) He covers them with a blanket and goes to bed.
(c) He lies down next to them in bed.
(d) He begins to cry.

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

13. What does Victor conclude about the waitress at her home?
(a) Victor thinks she is his soul mate.
(b) Victor thinks she is too above him.
(c) Victor thinks she is too shallow.
(d) Victor does not think she is a real Indian.

14. What is Victor's father unable to buy the year before?
(a) A car.
(b) Christmas presents.
(c) New clothes for his children.
(d) A Thanksgiving turkey.

15. What condition does Victor suffer from when his white lover leaves him?
(a) The flu.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) A migraine.
(d) Vertigo.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Victor, Indians make the best __________ because they can ride horses.

2. What happens in the bingo game that Victor discusses after his experience with the waitress?

3. What is the name of Victor's pony in his hallucination?

4. Why does an Indian bring a watch to a Tribal Council meeting?

5. According to Victor, who has money on the reservation?

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