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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Opal's teddy bear's name?
(a) Two shoes.
(b) Teddy Roosevelt.
(c) Teddy Ruckspin.
(d) Just Ted.

2. What does the husband in the old Cheyenne folktale do with the creature after he kills it?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He drinks its blood.
(c) He chops it up and uses it in a ceremony.
(d) He brings the meat home and serves it to his children.

3. Who is the Italian actor that often played Indian parts in movies and television programs?
(a) Iron Eyes Cody.
(b) Frederico Fellini.
(c) Angelo Ribisi.
(d) Matteo Baghetti.

4. What did Edwin once dream of becoming?
(a) A musician.
(b) A writer.
(c) A mathematician.
(d) An astronaut.

5. In 1637, colonists massacred hundreds of Pequot Indians at what event?
(a) Their annual leadership conference.
(b) Their birthing ceremony.
(c) Their harvest festival.
(d) Their annual Green Corn Dance.

6. What is Edwin's mother's boyfriend's name?
(a) Bill Davis.
(b) Thomas Frank.
(c) Harvey Harper.
(d) Winslow Homer.

7. Which city does the narrator focus on as a center for urban Indians?
(a) New York City.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Oakland.
(d) Atlanta.

8. What tribe did Metacomet belong to?
(a) The Arapaho Tribe.
(b) The Cherokee Tribe.
(c) The Wampanoag Tribe.
(d) The Cheyenne Tribe.

9. Which writer is quoted at the beginning of Part I?
(a) Raymond Carver.
(b) Javier Marias.
(c) George Saunders.
(d) William Faulkner.

10. What does Tony Loneman call his own face?
(a) The Drome.
(b) The love.
(c) The mask.
(d) The hate.

11. What is the object of Edwin's addiction?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) The internet.

12. What is Edwin's mother's name?
(a) Karen.
(b) Maxine.
(c) Opal.
(d) Norma.

13. What does Dene NOT have that he feels might hurt him in his grant interview?
(a) A good video camera.
(b) A sponsor.
(c) A work sample.
(d) Money to offer.

14. Which colonel led the volunteer militias that were so brutal to Indians?
(a) Colonel Michael Allen.
(b) Colonel Stanley McChrystal.
(c) Colonel Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) Colonel John Chivington.

15. What is the name of the public transport train system in Oakland that Tony Loneman routinely rides?
(a) Oakland Light Rail.
(b) Oakland Metro.
(c) BART.
(d) DART.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Opal's mother take her and her sister when they leave the yellow house in Oakland in 1970?

2. Dene tells the panel that which of the following is a reason that people are not interested in Native stories?

3. Who is Tony Loneman's grandmother?

4. What does Dene's uncle die from?

5. Who is Edwin's father?

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