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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. Where does Victor see the flirtatious waitress a second time?
(a) At a carnival.
(b) At a high school basketball game.
(c) At a Powwow.
(d) At a friend's party.

2. Why is Victor punishing Dirty Joe at the carnival?
(a) For his drunkeness.
(b) For being offensive to his mother.
(c) For threatening people.
(d) For promoting negative stereotypes of Indian people.

3. What happens when Victor and the waitress try to become intimate?
(a) Victor starts telling jokes.
(b) Victor becomes angry.
(c) Victor says he has an appointment he forgets about.
(d) Victor begins to shake.

4. Why does Victor refer to the situation on the reservation as "hurricanes"?
(a) Because it peaks during late summer.
(b) Because it devastates peoples' lives.
(c) Because the people have to wait for the government to step in.
(d) Because it spawns smaller "storm".

5. Where does the flirtatious waitress invite Victor after the see each other for the second time?
(a) To her parents' house.
(b) To her hotel room.
(c) To her Winnebago.
(d) To her apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Victor's friend the host of the party at the lake?

2. What is Victor's philosophy toward drinking?

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

4. What does Victor think about Indian names?

5. What "crime" does Thomas Builds-a-Fire commit twenty years ago?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Victor's father kill a man?

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

3. According to Victor, what kind of economic development do their ancestors laugh about?

4. What does the Witness Protection Program ask Victor's father about?

5. Who are the Urban Indians?

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

7. What are Thomas Builds-a-Fire's views on story telling?

8. What happens when Victor's high school basketball team makes it to the finals during his senior year in high school?

9. What does Victor think the trouble on the Indian reservation stems from?

10. Why does Junior drop out of college?

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