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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Estelle do after she spots the woman in the white dress?
(a) Stops her car but doesn't get out to assist the woman.
(b) Rolls down her window and beckons the woman.
(c) Ignores the woman.
(d) Honks her horn at the woman.

3. What does Estelle's son say he sometimes feels like instead of her son?
(a) Her student.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her boyfriend.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many questions does Sharon tell David he can ask about what she confesses to him?

3. 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?

4. Which of the following is something William does?

5. What do Sharon's parents do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jackson's relationship with Kay?

2. What is Real Change and how is it involved in Jackson's quest for his grandmother's regalia?

3. What is William's relationship with his wife in "Flight Patterns"?

4. How does the lost cat illustrate the story's theme of redemption in "Do You Know Where I Am?"

5. In "Do You Know Where I Am?", what is David's family background and is it the stereotypical background for an Indian?

6. Why does Jackson consider himself an "effective" homeless man?

7. Why do you think Estelle fails to help the bleeding woman in the final scene of the story and how does this failure affect her relationship with her son?

8. What does Estelle decide to do the summer her son turns thirteen, and how does her decision affect her son?

9. How does the title of the story "Do You Know Where I Am?" relate to the story?

10. Describe Jackson's relationship with Officer Williams in "What You Pawn, I Will Redeem."

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