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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Octavio bring to SIxto's house the first time he sees him after his mother and brother's deaths?

2. What kinds of numbers does Opal think are lucky?

3. What kinds of stories does Harvey tell Jacquie on their long ride to Oakland?

4. Which of the following people is at least partially responsible for Octavio's father's killing?

5. What does Lucas offer to do with Opal to put her mind at ease?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Calvin Johnson tell Dene Oxendene for his video storytelling project?

2. What are the circumstances around Thomas's firing?

3. What story does Orvil tell Dene Oxendene for his video storytelling project?

4. Why does Octavio's grandmother Josefina think her own father cursed her?

5. What very strange physical ailment do Orvil and Opal share?

6. What is the one thing Thomas Frank was always good at?

7. What does Daniel do after his brother Manny's death to feel closer to him?

8. What does Octavio's grandmother Josefina ask Octavio to help her with in order to ward off the curse she says he is under?

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the relationship between the book's prologue section and Dene Oxendene's vision for his storytelling project? In what ways could Dene's project be viewed as a response to the prologue narrator's views on the problems inherent in the historical representations of Natives in America?

Essay Topic 2

Opal's mother tells both Opal and Jacquie how important it is for them to always tell their stories, but Opal is opposed to telling the Red Feather boys - her adoptive grandsons - about their Native culture. Opal prefers to let them discover what it means to be Native on their own. Why do you think she chooses this approach, especially since Orvil has expressed such enthusiasm for learning about his heritage?

Essay Topic 3

What is Tony Loneman's last action before he dies? How does this act relate to what he says at the book's opening, "Maybe I'm'a do something one day, and everybody's gonna know about me. Maybe that's when I'll come to life. Maybe that's when they'll finally be able to look at me, because they'll have to" (19).

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