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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is Marie's hair in "Flight Patterns"?
(a) Short and neatly brushed.
(b) Curly.
(c) Always unkempt and wild.
(d) Dyed blonde.

3. About what does William sometimes fantasize?
(a) A new job.
(b) Other women and possible lives with them.
(c) Winning the lottery.
(d) Being a hero.

4. Near the end of "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above," what do Estelle and her son notice on the back of the white dress of a woman walking along the street?
(a) A large blood stain.
(b) A big grass stain.
(c) A large tear.
(d) A paint stain.

5. What did the taxi driver in "Flight Patterns" do for a living in his birth country?
(a) He was a jet-fighter pilot.
(b) He was a rabbi.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was a doctor.

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

7. What does Estelle's son like about Indian men?
(a) Their healing magic.
(b) Their ceremonies.
(c) Their totems.
(d) Their long hair, colorful clothes, and singing and dancing.

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

9. Which of the following is something William does?
(a) Drinks.
(b) Smokes.
(c) Declines to take pills.
(d) Eats processed sugar.

10. How long has it been since the taxi driver in "Flight Patterns" has seen his children?
(a) Many years.
(b) One year.
(c) One month.
(d) Two years.

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

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

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

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

15. What kind of work does William do?
(a) He's an accountant.
(b) He's a salesman.
(c) He drives a semi.
(d) He programs computers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Sharon tell at every family gathering during her long marriage to David?

2. What does Estelle's son say at the end of the story that he and his mother have done all his life and will keep doing until one eventually buries the other?

3. 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?

4. In what year does "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above" begin?

5. Who is Estelle's son engaged to when he meets the woman he eventually marries?

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