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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Victor's aunt experienced at?

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

3. What is Victor's father unable to buy the year before?

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

5. Where does the flirtatious waitress invite Victor after the see each other for the second time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Victor drives to a wealthy neighborhood after he has a fight with his girlfriend?

2. What happens at Thomas Builds-a-Fire's trial?

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

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

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

6. What does the Witness Protection Program ask Victor's father about?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the idea of salvation featured in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven? Use examples from the book to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Why are the characters on the Spokane Indian reservation opposed to assimilation into the mainstream culture? Why do the the reservation Indians shun the urban Indians? Is it likely that a person's cultural background is totally erased? Use evidence from the book in your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What is Victor's relationship with religion and tradition? Why does he have a sudden need for tradition when his father dies? How is the past both a destructive and a redemptive force in the novel? Use examples from the book to support your answers.

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