View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What holiday are the characters celebrating in the first chapter?

2. Where does Victor see the flirtatious waitress a second time?

3. What is Victor and Adrian's reaction when they are playing with the BB gun?

4. Why does Victor join Alcoholics Anonymous?

5. What is Victor's father's advice about remembering the past?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Victor's mother think about the stories Victor writes?

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

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

6. What are Thomas Builds-a-Fire's views on story telling?

7. Why does Junior drop out of college?

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

9. What does Victor do at a barbecue?

10. What does Norma say about Indians?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How important is humor in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven? What sort of ­humor prevails? Cite examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

In his stories, Alexie frequently includes details of every­day contemporary life and pop culture. What effect does this have? What do these details contribute to the tone and texture of the stories? Use examples from the novel to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how irony is used by the author. How effective is the use of irony in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven? Use examples from the book.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 842 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample