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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. Who are Orvil's brothers?

2. Why does Octavio want Calvin involved in robbing the powwow?

3. What is the name of the person who leads Thomas's drum circle?

4. Which of the following did Natives not have until the colonists came?

5. What does Opal text Jacquie to tell her about Orvil?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Bill Davis feel about Edwin Black?

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

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

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

6. What does Sixto tell Octavio that he and Octavio have in common?

7. In the interlude, what does the narrator say about last names as they relate to Natives?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Orange feel about the urban landscape as an environment for Indians? Use specific examples from several characters' experiences and narratives to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

Calvin and Orvil are two characters who share an absence of a feeling of heritage or a sense of real history of their Native culture. For each of these characters, which is the more important part of being Native - a bloodline, or a sense of learned culture?

Essay Topic 3

Octavio is the only character who is killed at the powwow for whom Orange does not include a chapter from his perspective as he dies. Write an essay analyzing the effect Orange's choice has on the characterization of Octavio and the impact that choice has on the reader's perception of Octavio.

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