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

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

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

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

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

6. 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) The coach is late to the game.
(d) Their star player is injured.

7. What does Victor demonstrate about the whole situation on the reservation?
(a) Humor.
(b) Rebellion.
(c) Withdrawal.
(d) Sadness.

8. 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 ambivalent.
(c) She is outraged.
(d) She is sad.

9. How do Victor and his teammates pass the time at the state basketball finals?
(a) They talk about girls.
(b) They do cheers and chants.
(c) They look at first-aid manuals.
(d) They practice their drills.

10. Why does Victor join Alcoholics Anonymous?
(a) He wants to be a good role model for James.
(b) He is incarcerated for abandonment.
(c) He admits he has a problem.
(d) He stumbles and falls on James while intoxicated.

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

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

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

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

15. Why does Victor refer to the situation on the reservation as "hurricanes"?
(a) Because it spawns smaller "storm".
(b) Because it devastates peoples' lives.
(c) Because it peaks during late summer.
(d) Because the people have to wait for the government to step in.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the situation in jail like a war?

2. What is Victor's father's advice about remembering the past?

3. According to Victor, what do you have to do to avoid past and future skeletons?

4. Who is with Victor when they see Dirty Joe at the carnival?

5. What is Victor's father's view on war?

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