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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Victor drives into a wealthy neighborhood?
(a) People stare at him.
(b) He is pulled over by a police officer.
(c) His car breaks down.
(d) Several people ask him what he is doing there.

2. What does the clerk at the 7-11 give to Victor?
(a) The contact info for the store manager for a job.
(b) A slurpee.
(c) A six-pack of beer.
(d) A creamsicle.

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

4. What does Victor say about life off of the reservation?
(a) It is like heaven.
(b) It is like a bad dream you never wake up from.
(c) It makes him paranoid.
(d) It is mesmerizing.

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

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

7. What does Victor's teacher want him to do in the second grade?
(a) To write with his right hand and wear cleaner clothing.
(b) To do his homework at school because she does not think he is doing his own work.
(c) To apologize for everything and cut off his braids.
(d) 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.

8. What do Victor's siblings commonly do with a car while growing up?
(a) Go joy riding.
(b) Sniff gas from the exhaust pipe.
(c) They throw rocks at the cars.
(d) They siphon gas and sell it.

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

10. How does Victor describe Uncle Moses?
(a) A man that is remembered by all.
(b) A man of great virtue.
(c) He is the town drunk.
(d) An embarassment to the family.

11. Why is Jimmy One-Horse's wife upset at him?
(a) Jimmy is verbally abusive to her.
(b) He keeps leaving the toilet seat up.
(c) Jimmy has cancer and makes jokes about it.
(d) Jimmy has an affair with another woman.

12. Where does Jimmy One-horse's wife go when she is upset with him?
(a) The Chinook bar.
(b) To the Powwow Tavern.
(c) Into the woods.
(d) To her mother's house.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Junior Polatkin attend college?

2. What does Victor recount about one time Victor's father is drunk while growing up?

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

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

5. What does Victor consider censorship in the third grade?

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