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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Uncle Moses befriend?
(a) Junior.
(b) Adrian.
(c) Edgar.
(d) Arnold.

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

3. What does Junior Polatkin tell the blonde girl what it is like being an Indian at the university?
(a) Like an outcast.
(b) Like he is in an aquarium.
(c) Like a celebrity.
(d) Lonely.

4. What is one of John-John's talents?
(a) Woodworking.
(b) Telling stories.
(c) Playing basketball.
(d) Singing.

5. What about the Indian people does Victor discuss in Chapter 15?
(a) Their dreams.
(b) Their lack of hope.
(c) Their virtues.
(d) Their bad luck.

6. What is the nature of the gift that the person whom Uncle Moses befriends?
(a) Not marketable.
(b) Rare.
(c) Improbable.
(d) Overlooked.

7. What is Victor's equation for survival?
(a) Survival = Ingenuity X Stamina.
(b) Survival = Skills X Stamina.
(c) Survival = Anger X Imagination.
(d) Survival = Determination X Imagination.

8. What happens after Nora visits the Powwow Tavern?
(a) She stops by a diner.
(b) She usually takes someone home with her.
(c) She stops by her mother's grave.
(d) She passes out.

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

10. What does Victor use to explain different events in his life?
(a) The periods after each sibling is born.
(b) The grades he is in during school.
(c) By the cars his family own.
(d) The television.

11. What does the psychic child advise Victor to do?
(a) To break all of the mirrors in the house and tape them to his body.
(b) To put glue on his body and roll around in leaves.
(c) To build a tree house and live there for a month.
(d) To stand on his roof and shout at people walking by.

12. Why does the police officer give the money back to Jimmy One-horse and his wife?
(a) Because the couple is so nice and Jimmy One-horse's wife starts to cry.
(b) They say they write a letter to the editor of the local paper and warn other Indians to be wary of crooked police officers.
(c) Because they say they write letters to his department that say the officer is polite and obeys the law.
(d) They threaten to talk to the police chief.

13. Where do Junior and the blond girl run into each other during Christmas break?
(a) At a bar.
(b) While checking his mailbox.
(c) At a bus station.
(d) At a diner.

14. What news does Samuel-builds-a-fire receive at work?
(a) He is doing a different job.
(b) His boss is arrested.
(c) A co-worker passes away.
(d) He is being let go from his job.

15. What does Victor imagine that an Indian invents?
(a) The A-bomb.
(b) The automatic machine gun.
(c) Vaccines.
(d) The telephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor do at a barbecue?

2. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's job title?

3. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's reaction to the news he receives at work?

4. What does Victor think about Nora?

5. What creates beauty?

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