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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the grass feel to Victor at the barbecue?
(a) Moist.
(b) Dry.
(c) Smooth.
(d) Jagged.

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

6. Why is one of Victor's girlfriends afraid of him?
(a) Because he seems mentally unstable.
(b) Because he is always writing and she does not know what he writes.
(c) Because he is an Indian.
(d) Because he is often angry.

7. Why do Victor's sisters put food coloring in the potatoes while growing up?
(a) Because they could not afford Play-doh.
(b) Because they think it looks pretty.
(c) To imagine they are eating different foods.
(d) Because they think the meal looks too bland.

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

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

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

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

12. What does Victor use to explain different events in his life?
(a) The television.
(b) The periods after each sibling is born.
(c) By the cars his family own.
(d) The grades he is in during school.

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

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

15. To Victor, what about an Indian boy is beautiful?
(a) His hair.
(b) His laughter.
(c) His hands.
(d) His eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to John-John's brother Joseph?

2. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's reaction to the news he receives at work?

3. What does Victor imagine happens to Christopher Columbus?

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

5. What creates beauty?

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