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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Victor take baby James home to take care of him?
(a) Because he is friends with the baby's father.
(b) Because he ends up on welfare anyway.
(c) Because there are no immediate relatives.
(d) Because he is the baby's father.

2. What is Victor's father unable to buy the year before?
(a) A Thanksgiving turkey.
(b) New clothes for his children.
(c) A car.
(d) Christmas presents.

3. What does Victor refer to when he discusses the "hurricanes" on the reservation?
(a) Wayward youths.
(b) Wind storms.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Large uprisings.

4. According to Victor, what do their ancestors laugh at?
(a) The economic development that makes his friend prosperous.
(b) Indians being school mascots.
(c) Selling Indian trinkets to tourists.
(d) Indians owning casinos.

5. Who are the Urban Indians?
(a) It is an Indian gang.
(b) The Indians that leave the reservation.
(c) They are Indian activists.
(d) Those who adopt the white ways of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor think that James does in 1973?

2. What is the condition that Thomas Builds-a-Fire places on his assistance after Victor's father's death?

3. Who chases Victor and his companion after the incident with Dirty Joe at the carnival?

4. According to Victor, Indians make the best __________ because they can ride horses.

5. What happens to Victor after a night of drinking when his white lover leaves him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What type of hallucinations do Victor and Junior have while taking a new drug at the lake?

2. Why does Junior drop out of college?

3. Who are the Urban Indians?

4. Why does Victor join Alcoholics Anonymous?

5. Why is Victor amazed at the waitress he meets at the fry bread stand?

6. What happens at Thomas Builds-a-Fire's trial?

7. How does Thomas Builds-a-Fire assist Victor after his father dies?

8. What happens to Victor's parents at the New Year's Eve party in 1976?

9. What are the "hurricanes" that are plaguing the Indian reservation?

10. What happens to Victor in the second grade?

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