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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 Jacquie do to ensure she will not drink at the hotel?
(a) Pours all the bottles of alcohol down the drain.
(b) Moves the mini-fridge out of her room and into the hall.
(c) Ties her hands together so she can't get the bottles of alcohol.
(d) Throws all the bottles of alcohol out of the window.

2. What was Blue's original first name?
(a) Allie.
(b) Corrine.
(c) Christine.
(d) Crystal.

3. Why does Fina think her own father cursed her?
(a) Because she got pregnant out of wedlock and had an abortion.
(b) Because she yelled at him.
(c) Because she took drugs.
(d) Because she married someone who was not Indian.

4. A quote from which author opens the interlude?
(a) Christopher Hitchens.
(b) Kurt Vonnegut.
(c) Charles Baudelaire.
(d) John Steinbeck.

5. What does Daniel teach himself to do at least in part with the help of an online community?
(a) Assemble a car engine.
(b) Perform traditional Native dances.
(c) Write computer code.
(d) Build a robot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Blue not want to leave the bus station bathroom?

2. How does Octavio's father die?

3. Who stays with Blue in the bus station bathroom?

4. Where does Opal work?

5. Which baseball team was Bill always devoted to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What pivotal person from Jacquie's past does she meet in Phoenix and how does she meet him?

2. What bizarre story does Harvey tell Jacquie as they drive together from Phoenix to Oakland?

3. What does Orvil Red Feather want Opal to teach him about?

4. What did Opal tell Lucas when they were teenagers that she had not shared with anyone else?

5. Why does Blue decide to leave her husband Paul?

6. How does Calvin Johnson get pulled into the plot to rob the Big Oakland Powwow?

7. Who gave Opal the regalia that Orvil has secretly been trying on and what is that person's relationship to another main character?

8. How does Bill Davis feel about Edwin Black?

9. Why did Opal and Jacquie leave Ronald's house as young girls?

10. What does Bill try to catch out of annoyance when he sees it as he is preforming his maintenance duties at the Oakland Coliseum?

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