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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jackson buy with twenty of his last twenty-five dollars?
(a) A hotel room.
(b) A shave and haircut.
(c) Newspapers.
(d) Food for some hungry and homeless Aleut Indians.

2. What kind of Indian is Sharon?
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Apache.
(c) Lakota.
(d) Spokane.

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

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

6. What happens to Sharon when she and David are sixty-six years old?
(a) She catches a burglar.
(b) She falls in love with another man.
(c) She breaks a hip.
(d) She develops a terminal case of cancer.

7. What kind of Indian is David?
(a) Spokane.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) Lakota.
(d) Apache.

8. 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) Countless times.
(b) Once.
(c) Ten times.
(d) Never.

9. What is Estelle's real name in "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above"?
(a) Estelle Miller.
(b) Amanda Sue Dickerson.
(c) Estelle Red Blanket.
(d) Sarah Jane Parker.

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sharon's confession initially make David want to do to her?

2. Why do David and Sharon each spend their college graduation day alone?

3. What identifies the regalia in the pawnshop window as the property of the person to whom Jackson thinks it once belonged?

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

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

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