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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the bingo game that Victor discusses after his experience with the waitress represent to him?
(a) That everyone finds happiness but him.
(b) That he is so far behind to win in life.
(c) That he does not have the tools he needs to elevate his status.
(d) Indians are playing the game of life that is stacked against them.

2. According to Victor, what do you have to do to avoid past and future skeletons?
(a) To drink to forget the past and avoid thinking about the future.
(b) To keep focused on the present.
(c) To keep moving.
(d) To stop doing things you regret.

3. Victor says that Indians do not care whether the glass is half-full or half empty. Then what do the Indians care about?
(a) Whether the glass is going to be empty by the next day.
(b) Whether something happens to the glass.
(c) That the glass is filled with beer.
(d) That they have a glass.

4. What happens when Victor's basketball team goes to the state finals in high school?
(a) They are one referee short.
(b) The coach is late to the game.
(c) Their bus breaks down.
(d) Their star player is injured.

5. What do onlookers do when they see Dirty Joe at the carnival?
(a) They gawk and point.
(b) They get away from him.
(c) They ignore him.
(d) They start shouting at him.

6. Why is Victor's friend the host of the party at the lake?
(a) Because he is supplying the beer.
(b) Because he is celebrating his new job.
(c) Because it is his birthday.
(d) Because his family owns the land.

7. What is the condition that Thomas Builds-a-Fire places on his assistance after Victor's father's death?
(a) That Victor pays it forward.
(b) That Victor returns the favor when his father dies.
(c) That Victor helps him move some furniture to his brother's house.
(d) That he goes to the funeral with Victor.

8. What happens when Victor and the waitress try to become intimate?
(a) Victor starts telling jokes.
(b) Victor says he has an appointment he forgets about.
(c) Victor begins to shake.
(d) Victor becomes angry.

9. How does Victor play with the BB gun when he and Adrian are together?
(a) He shoots at squirrels.
(b) He pretends to shoot his troubles away.
(c) He puts the gun up to his temple.
(d) He plays cowboys and Indians.

10. What do Victor's uncles do at the holiday party?
(a) They start a large fire.
(b) They try to drink more than the other.
(c) They brutally fight each other.
(d) They challenge each other to a race.

11. Why does Victor take baby James home to take care of him?
(a) Because he ends up on welfare anyway.
(b) Because there are no immediate relatives.
(c) Because he is friends with the baby's father.
(d) Because he is the baby's father.

12. How does Thomas Builds-a-Fire assist Victor after his father passes away?
(a) He helps Victor sort through his father's possessions.
(b) He gives him money.
(c) He lets Victor cry on his shoulder.
(d) He offers him a ride.

13. Victor falls back on drinking the day his white lover returns, but what does he attempt to do that day?
(a) To start a job search.
(b) To go on the wagon.
(c) To help a friend move.
(d) To be productive.

14. What is Victor's aunt's reaction to her husband and son's treatment during the mouse incident?
(a) She is ambivalent.
(b) She is outraged.
(c) She is thankful.
(d) She is sad.

15. Why does Victor's father buy a motorcycle?
(a) To get away from his wife.
(b) To visit distant friends.
(c) He has a leg injury and it is difficult for him to walk.
(d) Because he wants one since he is a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Victor's advice regarding past and future skeletons in your life?

2. How does Victor try to bond with his father?

3. What is Victor's father's view on war?

4. What is Victor's philosophy toward drinking?

5. How does Thomas Builds-a-Fire help Victor when they are children?

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