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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When does Jimmy One-horse's wife return after leaving him?
(a) When her mother dies.
(b) When Jimmy pleas with her to return.
(c) When Jimmy is hospitalized.
(d) When she has a change of heart.

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

6. What is one of John-John's talents?
(a) Woodworking.
(b) Playing basketball.
(c) Telling stories.
(d) Singing.

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

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

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

10. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's job title?
(a) Store clerk.
(b) Construction worker.
(c) Maid at a motel.
(d) Landscaper.

11. What happens after Nora visits the Powwow Tavern?
(a) She passes out.
(b) She usually takes someone home with her.
(c) She stops by a diner.
(d) She stops by her mother's grave.

12. 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 slurpee.
(d) A creamsicle.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is John-John's explanation for having two names?

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

3. Why does the 7-11 clerk think Victor is a criminal?

4. What do Victor's siblings commonly do with a car while growing up?

5. What does Victor compare diabetes to?

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