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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What creates beauty?
(a) Fallen flower petals.
(b) A smile on a child's face.
(c) A napkin blowing across the ground.
(d) A cracked piece of glass.

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

3. What does Victor's father describe while starting a car in the winter?
(a) Not owning a pair of snow boots while growing up.
(b) The first television show he sees.
(c) The cruel treatment he experiences in school while growing up.
(d) The first car his family owns.

4. What does Victor try to figure out every year between the age of thirteen to twenty-five?
(a) What it means to be thirteen.
(b) What it means to be a man.
(c) Where to get his next high.
(d) The mysteries of women.

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

6. What does Victor think about Nora?
(a) That he highly respects her.
(b) That he might have a crush on her.
(c) That she is extremely careless.
(d) That she makes a good wife for some lucky man.

7. What does Nora say about the Indian people?
(a) They are the most sensitive people.
(b) They are shiftless and lazy.
(c) They are given a bad deal.
(d) They are honorable people.

8. Why does the 7-11 clerk think Victor is a criminal?
(a) Because he has his hand in his pocket.
(b) He looks like a man whose picture is hanging in the store.
(c) Because he has long black hair and he is an Indian.
(d) Because he has a tattoo that looks like a prison gang tattoo.

9. Where does Jimmy One-horse and his wife first meet?
(a) At a party.
(b) At Cindy's fry bread stand.
(c) At the Powwow Tavern.
(d) In high school.

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

11. What hurtful thing does John-John imagine about Joseph's return?
(a) Joseph reprimanding him for not writing.
(b) That Joseph does not remember him.
(c) Saying he is home briefly then leaves again.
(d) Joseph reprimanding him for not taking better care of their mother.

12. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's reaction to the news he receives at work?
(a) He goes to a park.
(b) He goes to a bar.
(c) He goes home.
(d) He goes to a friend's house.

13. How much money does Victor's father give to a broke Indian?
(a) Twenty dollars.
(b) Some pocket change.
(c) Enough to buy some alcohol.
(d) Enough for a meal.

14. What is held up at the barbecue?
(a) A can of beer.
(b) A baby.
(c) A fist.
(d) A picture.

15. What does Victor not understand in the eighth grade?
(a) Why Indian boys are rounded up when white boys throw rocks through a store window.
(b) Why girls shoplift when they have the money to afford the items they steal.
(c) Why girls starve themselves through anorexia and bulemia when he is involuntarily starving on the reservation.
(d) Why white children are not arrested for curfew and children of color are.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John-John imagine he hears?

2. Why does Victor call Nora grandmother?

3. When does Jimmy One-horse's wife return after leaving him?

4. What does the clerk at the 7-11 give to Victor?

5. How does the grass feel to Victor at the barbecue?

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