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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 the cause of Tony Loneman's facial ireegularities?
(a) An acid attack.
(b) Abuse.
(c) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
(d) A bad car accident.

2. In the old Cheyenne folktale, what happens to the rolling head after it drinks the water from the chasm?
(a) The rolling head becomes confused and drunk.
(b) The rolling head bursts into flames.
(c) The rolling head starts singing.
(d) The rolling head dies.

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

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

5. Which famous writer does the hipster Rob quote to Dene as he is waiting to go in to his grant interview?
(a) Dorothy Parker.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Jane Austen.
(d) Edith Wharton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which colonel led the volunteer militias that were so brutal to Indians?

2. In the old Cheyenne folktale about the rolling head, what creature does the husband find his wife with?

3. What is Edwin's mother's boyfriend's name?

4. Who is the author of the poem that begins the prologue section?

5. What word does Orange mention that describes an Indian that supposedly acts white?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the media representations of Indians that are mentioned critically in the prologue?

2. What is the main issue that Dene is insecure about as he goes into his interview for his arts grant application?

3. What was the old Cheyenne story in the prologue about?

4. Orange opens the prologue with a Bertolt Brecht poem about singing in dark times. How is this poem relevant to Native history as Orange writes about it in There There?

5. What was moving Indians to urban centers and cities supposed to have accomplished?

6. What physical condition does Edwin suffer from at the beginning of the novel and what is it a possible metaphor for?

7. What was the first novel written by a Native person about?

8. What is the one main thing that Tony Loneman and Octavio Gomez have in common?

9. What life-altering event happens to Jacquie on Alcatraz?

10. What does the prologue narrator say was the true main purpose of the first meal in 1621 between Indians and colonists that Americans now celebrate and commemorate as Thanksgiving?

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