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

2. What is the name of Dene's uncle who inspires his video project?
(a) Lucas.
(b) Harvey.
(c) Bill.
(d) Edwin.

3. 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.

4. What illness does Opal's mother tell Opal she is suffering from?
(a) Alcoholism.
(b) Multiple Sclerosis.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Bipolar disorder.

5. Who is the author of the poem that begins the prologue section?
(a) William Gibson.
(b) Bertolt Brecht.
(c) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(d) Chief Red Feather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did Dene used to write, or "tag," everywhere he could?

2. Where did the colonists display Metacomet's head after they killed him?

3. What was Chief Massasoit's son's name?

4. Who is Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield's half-sister?

5. How does Edwin contact his father for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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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