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

2. Why are reservation Indians unable to marry Urban Indians?
(a) They live too far away.
(b) It is believed that the Urban Indians have contracted illnesses.
(c) Because of the Indian Resettlement Act.
(d) The Urban Indians lose all rights and privileges afforded to those on the reservation.

3. What happens thirty years ago while Victor's aunt and uncle return home from dancing?
(a) They hit a pedestrian.
(b) They get lost and end up coming home hours later.
(c) They are pulled over by a police officer.
(d) They get into a car accident.

4. Where does Victor think the troubles from the reservation stem from?
(a) Isolation.
(b) The lack of cohesion in the Indian community.
(c) The crimes he and his people have to endure.
(d) Poverty.

5. Victor falls back on drinking the day his white lover returns, but what does he attempt to do that day?
(a) To start a job search.
(b) To go on the wagon.
(c) To be productive.
(d) To help a friend move.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Victor try to bond with his father?

3. In Chapter Five, what have Victor and Adrian temporarily refrained from?

4. Why is Victor's father against fighting for the United States in the Vietnam War?

5. What do Victor's uncle and cousin do during his aunt's incident with a mouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Victor's sisters put food coloring in the potatoes while growing up?

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

3. What event leads Thomas Builds-a-Fire to stop telling stories?

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

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

6. What is the attitude toward the baby born of a red father and white mother at a barbecue?

7. What happens when Victor and Adrian are drinking Pepsi's on the front porch?

8. What does Victor's father do during the 1960s?

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

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

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