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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Victor, what do their ancestors laugh at?
(a) Selling Indian trinkets to tourists.
(b) Indians owning casinos.
(c) The economic development that makes his friend prosperous.
(d) Indians being school mascots.

2. Why are reservation Indians unable to marry Urban Indians?
(a) It is believed that the Urban Indians have contracted illnesses.
(b) The Urban Indians lose all rights and privileges afforded to those on the reservation.
(c) They live too far away.
(d) Because of the Indian Resettlement Act.

3. What happens when Victor and Adrian's high school buddies walk by the porch where they are sitting?
(a) They heckle each other.
(b) They throw rocks at each other.
(c) They wave.
(d) The buddies join them and they chat.

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

5. What does Victor's father tell him about his mother?
(a) That she is cantankerous.
(b) That she is a distant wife.
(c) That she is wonderful.
(d) That she is the glue that holds the family together.

6. Where do Victor and his companion escape to when being chased at the carnival?
(a) The tunnel of love.
(b) The men's restroom.
(c) The first aid station.
(d) The house of mirrors.

7. In Chapter Five, what have Victor and Adrian temporarily refrained from?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Sexual Intercourse.
(c) Bar brawls.
(d) Drinking.

8. Why is Victor's friend the host of the party at the lake?
(a) Because his family owns the land.
(b) Because he is supplying the beer.
(c) Because he is celebrating his new job.
(d) Because it is his birthday.

9. What is Victor's father's advice about remembering the past?
(a) Use your past to change your future.
(b) To change the old memories.
(c) To hold on to good memories.
(d) To avoid memories of the past.

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

11. Why does Victor find the waitress so unusual when he is at her place?
(a) Because she is educated and has no scars.
(b) She grows up off of the reservation and moves to one when she is older.
(c) Because she has a Buddhist shrine.
(d) Because she has a Holly Hobby collection

12. 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 start a job search.
(d) To be productive.

13. How does Adrian play with the BB gun when he and Victor are together?
(a) He shoots the gun into the air.
(b) He puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger.
(c) He imagines people he wants to shoot.
(d) He plays cowboys and Indians.

14. What are Victor and Adrian drinking on the front porch?
(a) Pepsi.
(b) Beer.
(c) Water.
(d) Moonshine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Thomas Builds-a-Fire been incarcerated recently?

2. What is Victor's father unable to buy the year before?

3. How do Victor and his friend describe the drug they take?

4. What happens when Victor and the waitress try to become intimate?

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

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