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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who assists Victor and his companion with Dirty Joe at the carnival?
(a) A stranger.
(b) A carny.
(c) A police officer.
(d) Another friend.

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

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

6. What does Thomas Builds-a-Fire stop doing after his incident twenty years ago?
(a) He stops leaving the house.
(b) He stops associating with ex-convicts.
(c) He stops telling stories.
(d) He stops drinking.

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

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

9. What does Victor refer to when he discusses the "hurricanes" on the reservation?
(a) Wayward youths.
(b) Large uprisings.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Wind storms.

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

11. What does Victor think that James does in 1973?
(a) He thinks that James writes a poem.
(b) He thinks that James swallows some poison.
(c) He thinks that James talks.
(d) He thinks that James reads a sentence out of a book.

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

13. Where does Victor have to travel to deal with his father's ashes after his death?
(a) Cheyenne.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Tulsa.
(d) Santa Fe.

14. Why does baby James have a dent in his head?
(a) He is accidentally dropped.
(b) He is thrown out of a window.
(c) He has a rare birth defect.
(d) His doctor uses forceps during his birth.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Victor says that Indians do not care whether the glass is half-full or half empty. Then what do the Indians care about?

2. How does Thomas Builds-a-Fire help Victor when they are children?

3. What is the result of the state final basketball game that Victor's high school team plays?

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

5. What is Victor's aunt experienced at?

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