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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 name of the relative Opal's mother leaves she and Jacquie with?
(a) Michael.
(b) Robert.
(c) Harvey.
(d) Ronald.

2. Why does Octavio ask Tony Loneman about powwows he has been to?
(a) Octavio wants to get a job organizing the powwow.
(b) Octavio wants to dance in regalia at a powwow.
(c) Octavio is thinking of robbing a powwow.
(d) Octavio is interested in Native culture.

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

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

5. What job does Octavio give Tony Loneman for his plan to rob the powwow?
(a) Octavio tells Tony to find out where the cash will be.
(b) Octavio tells Tony to hide the bullets at the powwow.
(c) Octavio tells Tony to poison the powwow organizers.
(d) Octavio tells Tony to fly the surveillance drone.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do Octavio and Tony Loneman have in common and bond over in conversation?

4. What does Tony Loneman call his own face?

5. What is Dene's mother's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Dene Oxendene and the white hipster named Rob talk about as they both wait for their art grant interviews?

2. Where does the prologue narrator say the Indian Head image appeared until the late 1970s?

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

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

5. Where does Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield's mother take she and her half-sister Jacquie after they abruptly move out of the yellow house in Oakland?

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

7. 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?

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

9. What happened to Metacomet, the Wampanoag Indian Chief?

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

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