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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. Where does Victor have to travel to deal with his father's ashes after his death?
2. Where does Victor see the flirtatious waitress a second time?
3. What is Victor's aunt's reaction to her husband and son's treatment during the mouse incident?
4. According to Victor, what do you have to do to avoid past and future skeletons?
5. According to Victor, what happens every day on the reservation?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Victor piece his family history together?
2. Why does the clerk at the 7-11 think Victor is a criminal?
3. Why is Victor amazed at the waitress he meets at the fry bread stand?
4. What does Victor's father do during the 1960s?
5. What is Victor's commentary about the situation on the reservation?
6. What happens when Victor drives to a wealthy neighborhood after he has a fight with his girlfriend?
7. What does Victor observe in the eighth grade?
8. What does Victor do at a barbecue?
9. Why do Victor's father and mother divorce?
10. What is the attitude toward the baby born of a red father and white mother at a barbecue?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
How do the characters in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven build myths around gifted individuals? Does this practice bolster or erode a sense of pride in the characters? How? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
How does Alexie use Victor and Thomas to typify two stereotypical roles of the warrior and shaman? How do these stereotyped characters function to achieve the author's purpose? Use examples from the novel to support your answer.
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