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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the psychic child advise Victor to do?
(a) To stand on his roof and shout at people walking by.
(b) To build a tree house and live there for a month.
(c) To put glue on his body and roll around in leaves.
(d) To break all of the mirrors in the house and tape them to his body.

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

3. 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 he is in an aquarium.
(d) Like an outcast.

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

5. 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.

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

7. Where do Junior and the blond girl run into each other during Christmas break?
(a) At a bar.
(b) At a diner.
(c) While checking his mailbox.
(d) At a bus station.

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

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

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

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

12. What about the Indian people does Victor discuss in Chapter 15?
(a) Their lack of hope.
(b) Their virtues.
(c) Their bad luck.
(d) Their dreams.

13. Where does Junior Polatkin attend college?
(a) Eastern Washington University.
(b) Walla Walla College.
(c) Whitman College.
(d) Gonzaga University.

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

15. What does Victor compare diabetes to?
(a) A good friend.
(b) A temptress.
(c) A lover.
(d) A kidnapper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does Samuel-builds-a-fire receive at work?

2. What happens when Victor drives into a wealthy neighborhood?

3. What does Victor say about life off of the reservation?

4. Why does Junior drop out of college?

5. What does Victor's father describe while starting a car in the winter?

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