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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's experience with a mouse?

2. What does Victor do after he reaches his conclusion about the waitress?

3. What happens to Victor's aunt after she gives birth to her son?

4. According to Victor, who has money on the reservation?

5. What is Victor's advice regarding past and future skeletons in your life?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is Victor scared about in life when he discusses the bingo scenario?

10. Why does Victor join Alcoholics Anonymous?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alexie subtly creates a message that the tribal world is eroding. How does this threat to the culture affect the characters? Use examples from the novel to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Alexie uses literal and figurative references to weather throughout The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. What effect does this have in creating a connection of natural forces and humans? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

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