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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 does Victor do when his white lover leaves him?
(a) He goes for a long walk.
(b) He sits around his home and mopes.
(c) He goes out dancing and talks to women.
(d) He goes to see his friends.

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

3. According to Victor, what do you have to do to avoid past and future skeletons?
(a) To keep moving.
(b) To keep focused on the present.
(c) To drink to forget the past and avoid thinking about the future.
(d) To stop doing things you regret.

4. What does the bingo game that Victor discusses after his experience with the waitress represent to him?
(a) That he is so far behind to win in life.
(b) That everyone finds happiness but him.
(c) Indians are playing the game of life that is stacked against them.
(d) That he does not have the tools he needs to elevate his status.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thomas Builds-a-Fire stop doing after his incident twenty years ago?

2. Who assists Victor and his companion with Dirty Joe at the carnival?

3. What condition does Victor suffer from when his white lover leaves him?

4. How does Victor convince the person to assist him with the incident with Dirty Joe at the carnival?

5. What is one of Dirty Joe's distinguishing features?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Victor convince the carny to assist Sadie and him with their incident with Dirty Joe at the Carnival?

2. What is Victor scared about in life when he discusses the bingo scenario?

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

4. Why does Samuel-Builds-a-Fire not have anything to drink in the past?

5. What is Victor's reaction when he misses his white lover?

6. What does Norma say about Indians?

7. What happens to Sadie and Victor after the incident with Dirty Joe at the carnival?

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

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

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

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