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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jimmy One-horse's wife think about the man with whom she has an affair?
(a) He is too self-absorbed.
(b) He is too flirtatious.
(c) He drinks too much.
(d) He is too serious.

2. Why does Victor call Nora grandmother?
(a) Because she is old enough to be his grandmother.
(b) Because she has a grandchild.
(c) Because he is kidding.
(d) Out of respect.

3. To Victor, what about an Indian boy is beautiful?
(a) His eyes.
(b) His laughter.
(c) His hair.
(d) His hands.

4. How does Victor's father kill a man?
(a) By accidentally starting a fire.
(b) He is in a car wreck.
(c) In a bar fight.
(d) Cleaning his rifle.

5. Why does Victor's mother not like the stories he writes?
(a) Because they use so much profanity.
(b) Because they are so negative.
(c) Because he is too revealing about family matters.
(d) Because she thinks he is wasting too much time writing them.

6. Where does Victor find a new job?
(a) Wenatchee.
(b) Walla Walla.
(c) Spokane.
(d) Grand Culee.

7. Why does Junior drop out of college?
(a) He is homesick.
(b) Because of his history teacher's treatment.
(c) Because of the stress caused by his relationship with the blonde girl.
(d) He is struggling in his classes.

8. What does Victor do at a barbecue?
(a) He talks to his cousin.
(b) He drinks.
(c) He plays a piano.
(d) He participates in a potato sack race.

9. Where is the location for Victor's imagination?
(a) A bar.
(b) His back porch.
(c) The 7-11.
(d) A gas station.

10. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's talent?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Playing basketball.
(c) Telling stories.
(d) Playing the trumpet.

11. How does Junior Polatkin and the blonde girl's short relationship end?
(a) The blonde girl becomes pregnant and has the baby.
(b) They have a really big fight.
(c) The blonde girl runs off with another guy.
(d) Junior's parents forbid him to see her.

12. What happens to Samuel-builds-a-fire on the railroad tracks?
(a) He meets a hobo who shares his dinner.
(b) His foot gets caught in the railroad ties.
(c) He gets mugged.
(d) He passes out with a train headed straight toward him.

13. What do Victor's sisters do when they are very hungry while growing up?
(a) They beg for food.
(b) They make mud pies in the yard.
(c) They scrape food from the table with their teeth.
(d) They dig through dumptsters.

14. Why is one of Victor's girlfriends afraid of him?
(a) Because he is an Indian.
(b) Because he is often angry.
(c) Because he seems mentally unstable.
(d) Because he is always writing and she does not know what he writes.

15. What happens to John-John's brother Joseph?
(a) He is taken as a prisoner of war.
(b) He is a deserter.
(c) He is killed in the Vietnam War.
(d) He is wounded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor say about life off of the reservation?

2. How does Victor describe Uncle Moses?

3. What does Victor use to explain different events in his life?

4. What news does Samuel-builds-a-fire receive at work?

5. What does Victor's teacher want him to do in the second grade?

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