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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did the taxi driver study at Oxford?
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Physics.
(d) Shakespeare.
2. After Jackson spends his lottery winnings, who gives him another twenty-five dollars?
(a) Rose of Sharon.
(b) The pawnshop owner.
(c) Junior.
(d) Officer Williams.
3. What kind of Indian is Sharon?
(a) Apache.
(b) Spokane.
(c) Lakota.
(d) Cherokee.
4. What does David's mother do for a living?
(a) She's a corporate attorney.
(b) She's an actress.
(c) She's a dentist.
(d) She's a seamstress.
5. How much money does Jackson initially have for redeeming the pow-wow regalia?
(a) Ten dollars.
(b) Fifty cents.
(c) Five dollars.
(d) One dollar.
6. How does Jackson get the pow-wow regalia at the end of "What You Pawn, I Will Redeem"?
(a) The pawnshop owner gives it to him.
(b) Officer Williams loans him the money to redeem it.
(c) He steals it.
(d) He wins the lottery and redeems it.
7. Whose pow-wow dance regalia does Jackson think he spots in a pawnshop window?
(a) His father's.
(b) His grandmother's.
(c) His tribal chief's.
(d) His own.
8. What does Jackson do with his lottery winnings?
(a) Buys more lottery tickets.
(b) Takes a cab ride to the reservation.
(c) Buys Rose of Sharon flowers.
(d) Gives away twenty and spends the rest on alcohol.
9. How many questions does Sharon tell David he can ask about what she confesses to him?
(a) None.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) As many as he wants.
10. 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 Ivory Coast.
(d) I'm East Coast.
11. What identifies the regalia in the pawnshop window as the property of the person to whom Jackson thinks it once belonged?
(a) The design of the beadwork.
(b) A yellow bead under the armpits.
(c) A stain on the sleeve.
(d) The red fringe.
12. Why is the regalia Jackson spots in the pawnshop window no longer in the possession of its rightful owner?
(a) It was stolen fifty years earlier.
(b) The original owner sold it.
(c) The original owner gave it away.
(d) The original owner pawned it.
13. How much does the pawnshop owner tell Jackson it will cost to redeem the regalia?
(a) One million dollars.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) One hundred dollars.
(d) Nine hundred and ninety nine dollars.
14. What do Sharon's parents do for a living?
(a) They're lawyers.
(b) They're architects.
(c) They own a convenience store.
(d) They're musicians.
15. What does Jackson try to sell to earn money to redeem the pow-wow regalia from the pawnshop?
(a) His blood.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) His shoes.
(d) Drugs.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Sharon give David for his fortieth birthday?
2. What does Marie want William to do instead of catch his plane?
3. How old is Estelle's son at the beginning of the story?
4. What feminist book does Estelle make her son read?
5. What is Estelle's real name in "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above"?
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