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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 do Octavio and Tony Loneman have in common and bond over in conversation?
(a) They both love guns.
(b) They both have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
(c) They both adore their grandmothers.
(d) They both shun alcohol.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Dene's uncle who inspires his video project?

2. What is Edwin's mother's name?

3. What young boy does Opal befriend on Alcatraz?

4. Which policy involved moving Indians to cities?

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

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

3. How does Opal and Jacquie's mother decide to manage her illness when she finds out she has cancer?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How would you describe Edwin's relationship with his mother, Karen?

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