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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do David and Sharon meet in "Do You Know Where I Am?"
(a) At high school.
(b) On the Spokane Indian reservation.
(c) At a Catholic college in Seattle.
(d) In a hamburger restaurant.

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

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

4. Whose pow-wow dance regalia does Jackson think he spots in a pawnshop window?
(a) His tribal chief's.
(b) His own.
(c) His father's.
(d) His grandmother's.

5. Who is Estelle's son engaged to when he meets the woman he eventually marries?
(a) Mary, a Crow Indian woman.
(b) White Flower, a Spokane Indian woman.
(c) Estelle, a Spokane Indian woman.
(d) Cynthia, a liberal white woman.

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

7. What feminist book does Estelle make her son read?
(a) Moving the Mountain.
(b) Our Bodies, Ourselves.
(c) The Feminine Mystique.
(d) Radical Feminism.

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

9. What does Marie want William to do instead of catch his plane?
(a) Go fishing.
(b) Drive the kids to school.
(c) Quit his job.
(d) Stay in bed and make love.

10. How much money does Jackson win at the lottery?
(a) One hundred dollars.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) One million dollars.
(d) Eight thousand dollars.

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

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

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

14. What health problem does William have?
(a) Indigestion.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) High blood pressure.
(d) An ulcer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of women are most of Estelle's friends?

2. What does the taxi driver say when passengers ask him if he's East Coast or West Coast?

3. 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?

4. What does William's daughter in "Flight Patterns" fear will happen to him after September 11th?

5. How does Jackson get the pow-wow regalia at the end of "What You Pawn, I Will Redeem"?

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