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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Victor's mother think of the Indian community?
(a) That they are admirable people with great strength.
(b) That they are victims.
(c) That they are a lost cause.
(d) That they are given gifts.

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

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

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

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

7. What does Victor imagine happens to Christopher Columbus?
(a) A tribe of Indians drown him.
(b) His ship is captured by pirates and he never returns.
(c) He actually makes it to India instead of the United States.
(d) His ship gets lost at sea.

8. What happens to Victor in the first grade?
(a) He is placed in the back of the classroom and ignored.
(b) He is put in the lowest reading group.
(c) He is repeatedly asked to go to the principal's office for disruptive behavior.
(d) He is teased by bullies.

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

10. What gift does the person whom Uncle Moses befriends have?
(a) Painting.
(b) Playing basketball.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Leadership.

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

12. What does Victor talk about during his high school years?
(a) Studying.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Girls.

13. Why do Victor's sisters put food coloring in the potatoes while growing up?
(a) Because they think the meal looks too bland.
(b) Because they could not afford Play-doh.
(c) To imagine they are eating different foods.
(d) Because they think it looks pretty.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor compare diabetes to?

2. What does Jimmy One-horse's wife think about the man with whom she has an affair?

3. What do Victor's sisters do when they are very hungry while growing up?

4. What is the nature of the gift that the person whom Uncle Moses befriends?

5. What does Victor try to figure out every year between the age of thirteen to twenty-five?

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