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

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

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

4. What kind of women are most of Estelle's friends?
(a) Republicans.
(b) Homeless women.
(c) Spokane Indians.
(d) White liberals.

5. What does Jackson buy with his initial twenty-five dollars?
(a) A haircut and shave.
(b) Food.
(c) A hotel room.
(d) Alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Sharon confess to David one night in "Do You Know Where I Am?"

3. How is Marie's hair in "Flight Patterns"?

4. What do both Estelle and her son do for a living?

5. Who gives Jackson his first twenty dollars for redeeming the pow-wow regalia from the pawn shop?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. With their education and prosperity, David and Sharon are well assimilated into mainstream American culture. Does "Do You Know Where I Am?" contain examples of the effects of Native American culture in their lives?

4. 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?

5. Why can't Fekadu return to Ethiopia?

6. Why do you think Jackson is so eager to redeem his grandmother's powwow regalia?

7. Why does Estelle's son say he doesn't know what an Indian is supposed to be?

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

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

10. What factors do you think contribute to and help perpetuate Jackson's homelessness in "What You Pawn, I Will Redeem"?

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