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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Estelle and her son frequently forget?
(a) Where they park their cars.
(b) Their birthdays.
(c) Their students' names.
(d) Their address.

2. Why did the taxi driver leave his birth country?
(a) He killed a man and had to flee.
(b) He feared the poverty and disease there.
(c) He couldn't bomb his own people any more.
(d) He is on the run from the mob.

3. After Jackson spends his lottery winnings, who gives him another twenty-five dollars?
(a) Rose of Sharon.
(b) Junior.
(c) The pawnshop owner.
(d) Officer Williams.

4. When Sharon calls David a liar at the end of "Do You Know Where I Am?", how many times does David say he has lied to his wife?
(a) Never.
(b) Ten times.
(c) Countless times.
(d) Once.

5. What story does Sharon tell at every family gathering during her long marriage to David?
(a) Their first meeting story.
(b) Their wedding day story.
(c) Their first child's birth story.
(d) The lost cat story.

6. What does Estelle's son say he sometimes feels like instead of her son?
(a) Her friend.
(b) Her student.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her boyfriend.

7. What does Jackson do with his lottery winnings?
(a) Gives away twenty and spends the rest on alcohol.
(b) Buys more lottery tickets.
(c) Takes a cab ride to the reservation.
(d) Buys Rose of Sharon flowers.

8. How many questions does Sharon tell David he can ask about what she confesses to him?
(a) None.
(b) As many as he wants.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

9. What does William's daughter in "Flight Patterns" fear will happen to him after September 11th?
(a) That his plane will be hijacked by terrorists.
(b) That he will leave her and Marie.
(c) That he will be mistaken for a terrorist.
(d) That his plane will crash.

10. Why is the regalia Jackson spots in the pawnshop window no longer in the possession of its rightful owner?
(a) The original owner pawned it.
(b) The original owner sold it.
(c) The original owner gave it away.
(d) It was stolen fifty years earlier.

11. How many children do David and Sharon have?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) None.

12. What kind of mental problem does Jackson have?
(a) Asocial disorder.
(b) Depression.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Bipolar disorder.

13. Who are Rose of Sharon and Junior in "What You Pawn, I Will Redeem"?
(a) Jackson's siblings.
(b) Jackson's children.
(c) Jackson's neighbors.
(d) Homeless friends who hang out with Jackson.

14. What does Sharon give David for his fortieth birthday?
(a) A painting.
(b) A set of golf clubs.
(c) A Tarot card reading.
(d) A T-shirt referring to the lost cat.

15. How long does the pawnshop owner give Jackson to come back with the money to redeem the regalia?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) One week.
(c) Ten days.
(d) Twenty-four hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does William wear his hair?

2. What kind of Indian is Sharon?

3. What does Jackson try to sell to earn money to redeem the pow-wow regalia from the pawnshop?

4. In "Do You Know Where I Am?", what does David do when the lost cat's owner comes to reclaim him.

5. Once David and she find the cat, what does Sharon remember seeing in the newspaper the previous week?

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