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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 to see his friends.
(b) He goes for a long walk.
(c) He goes out dancing and talks to women.
(d) He sits around his home and mopes.

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

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

4. Where does Victor have to travel to deal with his father's ashes after his death?
(a) Cheyenne.
(b) Tulsa.
(c) Santa Fe.
(d) Phoenix.

5. What do Victor's uncle and cousin do during his aunt's incident with a mouse?
(a) They offer their advice.
(b) They laugh and tease her.
(c) They run after the mouse.
(d) They ignore her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Adrian play with the BB gun when he and Victor are together?

3. Victor falls back on drinking the day his white lover returns, but what does he attempt to do that day?

4. Why are the Indians burning down a house?

5. What is the name of Victor's pony in his hallucination?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the tribal council burning houses?

2. What is Victor's opinion about Indian names?

3. Why is Jimmy One-horse's wife mad at him?

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

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

6. What happens to Victor in the second grade?

7. What are Victor's thoughts on skeleton's in one's life?

8. What is Victor's father's view on war?

9. How do Victor and his friend Adrian play with a BB gun?

10. Why does Junior fall in love with the blonde girl in his history class?

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