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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Victor and the waitress discuss at her place?
(a) Their relationships with their parents.
(b) The problems of the Indian community.
(c) The differences between men and women.
(d) What type of Indian she is.

3. Why is Victor's father against fighting for the United States in the Vietnam War?
(a) Because the government kills so many Indians in the past.
(b) Because he does not agree with the reasons why the United States goes to war.
(c) Because he considers the Vietnamese like the Indians.
(d) Because he does not consider himself an American citizen.

4. What is the name of Victor's pony in his hallucination?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Flight.
(c) Security.
(d) Easy Way.

5. Why is Thomas Builds-a-Fire been incarcerated recently?
(a) He calls the tribal school principal's wife "a traitor in pumps".
(b) He calls the tribal doctor's wife "a native with dangling shiny objects".
(c) He calls the tribal fire chief's wife "a heathen with heavy makeup".
(d) He calls the tribal police chief's wife "a savage in polyester pants".

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

7. 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.

8. How does Victor try to bond with his father?
(a) By playing Jimi Hendrix music.
(b) By playing basketball.
(c) By going on motorcycle rides with him.
(d) By talking with him about the old days.

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

10. Where does Victor live?
(a) On an Indian reservation near Phoenix.
(b) On an Indian reservation near Cheyenne.
(c) On an Indian reservation near Tulsa.
(d) On an Indian reservation near Spokane.

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

12. Who is with Victor when they see Dirty Joe at the carnival?
(a) Sadie.
(b) Thomas "Builds-the-Fire".
(c) Junior.
(d) Adrian.

13. According to Victor, what happens every day on the reservation?
(a) Fighting and unproductive, unhealthy, negative behaviors.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A striving to overcome adversity.
(d) Crime.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do onlookers do when they see Dirty Joe at the carnival?

2. What condition does Victor suffer from when his white lover leaves him?

3. What does Victor demonstrate about the whole situation on the reservation?

4. What are Victor and his companion's initial thoughts on what to do with Dirty Joe at the carnival?

5. What is Victor's philosophy toward drinking?

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