View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the nature of the gift that the person whom Uncle Moses befriends?
(a) Improbable.
(b) Overlooked.
(c) Rare.
(d) Not marketable.

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

6. What hurtful thing does John-John imagine about Joseph's return?
(a) Saying he is home briefly then leaves again.
(b) That Joseph does not remember him.
(c) Joseph reprimanding him for not writing.
(d) Joseph reprimanding him for not taking better care of their mother.

7. What is John-John's explanation for having two names?
(a) He is named after his Uncle John and his Grandfather John.
(b) Because it is easier to remember.
(c) It is a mistake made on his birth certificare.
(d) His parents like the rhythmic sound.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Victor's family watch television?

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

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

4. Where does John-John sit waiting for Joseph to come home?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 620 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample