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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 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?
(a) Supported women's rights.
(b) Loved and failed each other.
(c) Taught at the community college.
(d) Befriended white people.

2. 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) Countless times.
(c) Once.
(d) Ten times.

3. Which of the following statements is not marital advice Estelle gives her son?
(a) Do the laundry.
(b) Wash dishes.
(c) Vacuum.
(d) Give your wife expensive gifts.

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

5. 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) He steals it.
(c) Officer Williams loans him the money to redeem it.
(d) He wins the lottery and redeems it.

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

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

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

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

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

11. Why do David and Sharon each spend their college graduation day alone?
(a) They are each moving to different cities.
(b) Their families don't like each other.
(c) They break up temporarily because of David's lie.
(d) They graduate from different schools.

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

13. For what does William in "Flight Patterns" always scan airports and airplanes?
(a) Attaché cases that look like they could be bombs.
(b) Security guards and cops.
(c) Coffee and donuts.
(d) Little brown guys who reek of fundamentalism.

14. What identifies the regalia in the pawnshop window as the property of the person to whom Jackson thinks it once belonged?
(a) A yellow bead under the armpits.
(b) The design of the beadwork.
(c) The red fringe.
(d) A stain on the sleeve.

15. Who gives Jackson his first twenty dollars for redeeming the pow-wow regalia from the pawn shop?
(a) Junior.
(b) Rose of Sharon.
(c) The pawnshop owner.
(d) Officer Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has it been since the taxi driver in "Flight Patterns" has seen his children?

2. What does Sharon give David for his fortieth birthday?

3. What health problem does William have?

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

5. What is Estelle's real name in "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above"?

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