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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Victor decide to do after the state final basketball game?
(a) Relax.
(b) Attend college.
(c) Leave high school.
(d) Coach basketball.

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

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

4. What is Victor's aunt's reaction to her husband and son's treatment during the mouse incident?
(a) She is thankful.
(b) She is outraged.
(c) She is sad.
(d) She is ambivalent.

5. How does Victor play with the BB gun when he and Adrian are together?
(a) He shoots at squirrels.
(b) He plays cowboys and Indians.
(c) He pretends to shoot his troubles away.
(d) He puts the gun up to his temple.

6. Who chases Victor and his companion after the incident with Dirty Joe at the carnival?
(a) A group of teens.
(b) Dirty Joe.
(c) A pack of dogs.
(d) Security guards.

7. What does Victor say he is afraid of when he and the waitress start to become intimate?
(a) Mundane things like escalators.
(b) Unprotected sexual intercourse.
(c) Becoming like his father.
(d) Becoming too close to someone.

8. What is the name of Victor's Urban Indian girlfriend?
(a) Tremble Dancer.
(b) Red Cloud at Sundown.
(c) Sky Messenger.
(d) New Star First Born Daughter.

9. 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.

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

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

12. Why does Victor's father buy a motorcycle?
(a) He has a leg injury and it is difficult for him to walk.
(b) Because he wants one since he is a child.
(c) To get away from his wife.
(d) To visit distant friends.

13. Why do the Indians hear sirens in 1967?
(a) There is a tornado.
(b) An ambulence is rushing to Rosemary Morning Dove's house.
(c) Several police cars are converging onto a bar.
(d) Rosemary Morning Dove's house is on fire.

14. Why do Victor's parents divorce?
(a) They are constantly arguing.
(b) They cannot agree on how to squeeze the tube of toothpaste.
(c) Because Victor's father wants to listen to Jimi Hendrix instead of being with his wife.
(d) Victor's father becomes abusive.

15. What does Victor do when his white lover leaves him?
(a) He goes to see his friends.
(b) He goes out dancing and talks to women.
(c) He goes for a long walk.
(d) He sits around his home and mopes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Victor's basketball team goes to the state finals in high school?

2. What do Victor's uncle and cousin do during his aunt's incident with a mouse?

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

4. Why does Victor refer to the situation on the reservation as "hurricanes"?

5. Where does Victor live?

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