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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do sober Indians treat drunken Indians?
(a) With disdain.
(b) With humor.
(c) With sympathy.
(d) With infinite patience.

2. What does Victor's teacher want him to do in the second grade?
(a) To do his homework at school because she does not think he is doing his own work.
(b) To perform math problems on the board in front of the class and testify before the state court about how his parents are mistreating him.
(c) To apologize for everything and cut off his braids.
(d) To write with his right hand and wear cleaner clothing.

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

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

5. What does Samuel-builds-a-fire do on his birthday?
(a) He plans to ask a woman out on a date.
(b) He purchases a new pair of shoes.
(c) He arrives to work a half hour early.
(d) He walks to work.

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

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

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

9. What does Victor not understand in the eighth grade?
(a) Why white children are not arrested for curfew and children of color are.
(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 Indian boys are rounded up when white boys throw rocks through a store window.

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

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

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

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

14. How does Victor's family watch television?
(a) In the dining room so they do not dwell on not having enough food.
(b) So loud that it distorts their conversations.
(c) In black and white.
(d) With the sound down so they can talk about what they are watching.

15. What does John-John imagine he hears?
(a) A ship coming into port.
(b) A jet landing.
(c) A helicopter landing.
(d) A bus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the police officer give the money back to Jimmy One-horse and his wife?

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

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

4. When does Victor have his first experiences with drugs?

5. What does Victor think about Nora?

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