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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Estelle's son say white people often think Indians are?
(a) Shamanic geniuses.
(b) Primitive.
(c) Poor and uneducated.
(d) Dangerous.

2. Which of the following is not a trait Estelle's son identifies as a negative aspect of being an Indian?
(a) Low self-esteem.
(b) Misogyny and lateral violence.
(c) Educational opportunities.
(d) Alcoholism.

3. What does David's mother do for a living?
(a) She's a dentist.
(b) She's a corporate attorney.
(c) She's a seamstress.
(d) She's an actress.

4. What do Sharon's parents do for a living?
(a) They're lawyers.
(b) They own a convenience store.
(c) They're architects.
(d) They're musicians.

5. What does Sharon confess to David one night in "Do You Know Where I Am?"
(a) She's an alcoholic.
(b) She has gambled their mortgage money away.
(c) She's been fired from her job.
(d) She's had an affair.

6. Who does William call at the end of "Flight Patterns"?
(a) Fedaku.
(b) His neighbor.
(c) Marie.
(d) His boss.

7. What two things do David and Sharon have in common when they meet?
(a) They're both sculptors and diabetics.
(b) They're both Native American and Catholic.
(c) They're both doctors and Spokane Indians.
(d) They're both Apache Indians and musicians.

8. In what year does "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above" begin?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1850.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1976.

9. How much money does Jackson initially have for redeeming the pow-wow regalia?
(a) One dollar.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) Fifty cents.

10. What does Jackson say is the only thing at which he's ever been good or effective?
(a) Making jewelry.
(b) Being homeless.
(c) Selling shoes.
(d) Making love.

11. What does the taxi driver say when passengers ask him if he's East Coast or West Coast?
(a) I'm both coasts.
(b) I'm West Coast.
(c) I'm East Coast.
(d) I'm Ivory Coast.

12. How does William wear his hair?
(a) In a ponytail.
(b) Short.
(c) Long and in two braids.
(d) He shaves his head.

13. What did the taxi driver study at Oxford?
(a) Physics.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Law.

14. Where do David and Sharon find a lost cat?
(a) In Sharon's college dorm.
(b) In some blackberry bushes.
(c) In an alley.
(d) In a dumpster.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the pawnshop owner give Jackson to come back with the money to redeem the regalia?

2. How much money does Jackson win at the lottery?

3. Which of the following statements is not marital advice Estelle gives her son?

4. What does Estelle's son like about Indian men?

5. Which of the following is something William does?

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