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

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

3. What Radiohead song does Dene listen to on the way to his grant interview?
(a) Crazy star.
(b) Stir.
(c) There There.
(d) Creeping.

4. What was the title of the first novel ever written by a Native person?
(a) The Drum Circle.
(b) The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta.
(c) Don Quixote.
(d) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

5. What piece of equipment does Dene's uncle leave for him?
(a) A good set of headphones.
(b) A tape recorder.
(c) A gun camera with a pistol grip.
(d) A boom microphone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What young boy does Opal befriend on Alcatraz?

2. Where does Edwin's mother say she has heard about a job opening?

3. Which policy involved moving Indians to cities?

4. Which real-life Native author's book did Tony Loneman read to his grandmother?

5. What job does Octavio give Tony Loneman for his plan to rob the powwow?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What happens to Tony when he gets really angry?

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

5. What does "the Drome" mean to Tony Loneman?

6. What steps does Edwin Black take in order to try to find his father for the first time?

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

8. What did the colonists do to the Pequot at the Green Corn Dance in 1637?

9. Who is Dene Oxendene's inspiration for his video storytelling project on Natives?

10. 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?

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