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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Victor's father describe while starting a car in the winter?
(a) The first car his family owns.
(b) The first television show he sees.
(c) Not owning a pair of snow boots while growing up.
(d) The cruel treatment he experiences in school while growing up.

3. 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.

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

5. Why does the 7-11 clerk think Victor is a criminal?
(a) He looks like a man whose picture is hanging in the store.
(b) Because he has his hand in his pocket.
(c) Because he has a tattoo that looks like a prison gang tattoo.
(d) Because he has long black hair and he is an Indian.

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

7. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's reaction to the news he receives at work?
(a) He goes home.
(b) He goes to a park.
(c) He goes to a friend's house.
(d) He goes to a bar.

8. What does Victor's teacher want him to do in the second grade?
(a) 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.
(b) To apologize for everything and cut off his braids.
(c) To do his homework at school because she does not think he is doing his own work.
(d) To write with his right hand and wear cleaner clothing.

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

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

11. How does Victor's father kill a man?
(a) He is in a car wreck.
(b) By accidentally starting a fire.
(c) Cleaning his rifle.
(d) In a bar fight.

12. What does Junior Polatkin tell the blonde girl what it is like being an Indian at the university?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Like an outcast.
(c) Like a celebrity.
(d) Like he is in an aquarium.

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

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

15. Why is Victor's father not surprised an acquaintance disappears when he is questioned by the Witness Protection Program?
(a) Many Indians disappear because of Indian relocations.
(b) He is a trouble-maker.
(c) He runs around with a rough crowd.
(d) He is friends with several magicians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the police officer give the money back to Jimmy One-horse and his wife?

3. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's talent?

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

5. Why does Victor's mother not like the stories he writes?

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