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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Victor, what happens every day on the reservation?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Fighting and unproductive, unhealthy, negative behaviors.
(c) Crime.
(d) A striving to overcome adversity.

2. What does Victor do at a barbecue?
(a) He drinks.
(b) He participates in a potato sack race.
(c) He talks to his cousin.
(d) He plays a piano.

3. Why do Victor's parents divorce?
(a) They are constantly arguing.
(b) Because Victor's father wants to listen to Jimi Hendrix instead of being with his wife.
(c) Victor's father becomes abusive.
(d) They cannot agree on how to squeeze the tube of toothpaste.

4. Why is Thomas Builds-a-Fire been incarcerated recently?
(a) He calls the tribal police chief's wife "a savage in polyester pants".
(b) He calls the tribal fire chief's wife "a heathen with heavy makeup".
(c) He calls the tribal doctor's wife "a native with dangling shiny objects".
(d) He calls the tribal school principal's wife "a traitor in pumps".

5. What is Victor's philosophy toward drinking?
(a) If he drinks one more beer, then everything in his life is better.
(b) He drinks to forget his past.
(c) He drinks to make his life seem normal.
(d) The only way to drink is to binge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor's father tell him about his mother?

2. What does Victor wonder about the event with his uncles during the holiday party?

3. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's job title?

4. According to Victor, Indians make the best __________ because they can ride horses.

5. Victor falls back on drinking the day his white lover returns, but what does he attempt to do that day?

(see the answer key)

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