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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Victor consider censorship in the third grade?
(a) When a story he writes about his family life is taken away.
(b) When his comic book is taken away.
(c) When he is asked to return to his desk and be quiet after talking about life on the reservation.
(d) When his drawing is confiscated.

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

4. What does Victor recount about one time Victor's father is drunk while growing up?
(a) He walks into a closet thinking it is a bathroom.
(b) He starts a fight with a neighbor.
(c) He wanders off into the night.
(d) He stumbles down the stairs.

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

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

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

8. What does Victor not understand in the eighth grade?
(a) Why girls starve themselves through anorexia and bulemia when he is involuntarily starving on the reservation.
(b) Why girls shoplift when they have the money to afford the items they steal.
(c) Why Indian boys are rounded up when white boys throw rocks through a store window.
(d) Why white children are not arrested for curfew and children of color are.

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

10. What happens to Samuel-builds-a-fire on the railroad tracks?
(a) His foot gets caught in the railroad ties.
(b) He gets mugged.
(c) He passes out with a train headed straight toward him.
(d) He meets a hobo who shares his dinner.

11. When does Victor have his first experiences with drugs?
(a) In the fifth and sixth grades.
(b) In the fourth and fifth grades.
(c) In the sixth and seventh grades.
(d) In the seventh and eighth grades.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor's mother think of the Indian community?

2. Why is Victor's father not surprised an acquaintance disappears when he is questioned by the Witness Protection Program?

3. What about the Indian people does Victor discuss in Chapter 15?

4. Why does Junior Polatkin fall in love with the blonde girl in history class?

5. Why is one of Victor's girlfriends afraid of him?

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