View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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 apologize for everything and cut off his braids.
(c) To write with his right hand and wear cleaner clothing.
(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.

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

8. What does Victor's father not know about the man who disappears?
(a) Where he lives.
(b) Where he is last seen.
(c) Who his next of kin are.
(d) Who shoots him.

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

10. What do Victor's sisters do when they are very hungry while growing up?
(a) They dig through dumptsters.
(b) They scrape food from the table with their teeth.
(c) They beg for food.
(d) They make mud pies in the yard.

11. Why do Victor and his girlfriend once fight in the dark?
(a) Because it is more romantic.
(b) Because she does not pay her electric bill.
(c) Because they pay more attention to what they are saying.
(d) Because Victor breaks all of the lamps.

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

13. 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 his hand in his pocket.
(c) He looks like a man whose picture is hanging in the store.
(d) Because he has a tattoo that looks like a prison gang tattoo.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Samuel-builds-a-fire do on his birthday?

2. Who does Uncle Moses befriend?

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

4. What does Victor compare diabetes to?

5. What happens to Samuel-builds-a-fire on the railroad tracks?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 614 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample