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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. What do Victor and the waitress discuss at her place?
(a) The problems of the Indian community.
(b) Their relationships with their parents.
(c) The differences between men and women.
(d) What type of Indian she is.

2. What does Thomas Builds-a-Fire do during the incident twenty years ago?
(a) He runs from the police.
(b) He leaves his wallet at the scene.
(c) He surrenders.
(d) He punches a bystander.

3. What is Victor's father in the 1960's?
(a) An Indian activist.
(b) A rabble rouser.
(c) An Indian hippie.
(d) A drug addict.

4. How does Thomas Builds-a-Fire help Victor when they are children?
(a) He lets Victor copy his homework when Victor forgets it.
(b) He helps free Victor from an underground wasp nest.
(c) He fights off some bullies.
(d) He pulls Victor from a river.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Indians hear sirens in 1967?

2. Where does Victor meet a flirtatious waitress?

3. What do Victor's uncles do at the holiday party?

4. Where has Victor's white lover been the night before she leaves him?

5. What does Victor conclude about the waitress at her home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Victor do when the waitress invites him back to her Winnebago?

2. What does Victor's mother think about the stories Victor writes?

3. Why do Victor's father and mother divorce?

4. How does Victor describe Uncle Moses?

5. What does Victor do at a barbecue?

6. What happens to Victor's aunt and a mouse?

7. What is Victor's attitude when he is drinking and missing his white lover?

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

9. Why is the tribal council burning houses?

10. What is Victor's commentary about the situation on the reservation?

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