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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, who has money on the reservation?
(a) The cigarette and fireworks salespeople.
(b) The bar owners.
(c) Those who can sell trinkets to tourists.
(d) The store owners.

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

3. What are Victor and his companion's initial thoughts on what to do with Dirty Joe at the carnival?
(a) To call the police.
(b) To fight with him.
(c) To take him home.
(d) To leave him.

4. What does Victor do after his parents pass out from drinking too much alcohol?
(a) He begins to cry.
(b) He goes out to meet his friends.
(c) He covers them with a blanket and goes to bed.
(d) He lies down next to them in bed.

5. Why is Thomas Builds-a-Fire been incarcerated recently?
(a) He calls the tribal doctor's wife "a native with dangling shiny objects".
(b) He calls the tribal police chief's wife "a savage in polyester pants".
(c) He calls the tribal school principal's wife "a traitor in pumps".
(d) He calls the tribal fire chief's wife "a heathen with heavy makeup".

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Victor and his friend describe the drug they take?

3. How does Thomas Builds-a-Fire help Victor when they are children?

4. Why does Victor refer to the situation on the reservation as "hurricanes"?

5. What happens thirty years ago while Victor's aunt and uncle return home from dancing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story that Jimmy One-horse tells about he and his wife being pulled over by a police officer?

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

3. What is Victor's opinion about 7-11 stores?

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

5. What does Victor do at a barbecue?

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

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

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

9. What happens after Victor's aunt gives birth?

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

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