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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Thomas Builds-a-Fire help Victor when they are children?
(a) He lets Victor copy his homework when Victor forgets it.
(b) He helps free Victor from an underground wasp nest.
(c) He fights off some bullies.
(d) He pulls Victor from a river.

2. What happens to Victor's aunt after she gives birth to her son?
(a) She catches pneumonia.
(b) She falls and breaks her leg.
(c) She has a hysterectomy.
(d) The doctor tricks her into tying her tubes.

3. How do Victor and his teammates pass the time at the state basketball finals?
(a) They look at first-aid manuals.
(b) They do cheers and chants.
(c) They practice their drills.
(d) They talk about girls.

4. What is Victor's advice regarding past and future skeletons in your life?
(a) To live a clean life.
(b) To forget about them.
(c) You keep yourself in the middle of the past and future skeletons.
(d) To avoid creating future skeletons.

5. Why do the Indians hear sirens in 1967?
(a) Several police cars are converging onto a bar.
(b) An ambulence is rushing to Rosemary Morning Dove's house.
(c) Rosemary Morning Dove's house is on fire.
(d) There is a tornado.

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

7. How old is Victor when he is introduced to the reader?
(a) Sixteen-years old.
(b) Twenty-two-years old.
(c) Thirty-years old.
(d) Nine-years old.

8. Why is Victor's father against fighting for the United States in the Vietnam War?
(a) Because he considers the Vietnamese like the Indians.
(b) Because he does not agree with the reasons why the United States goes to war.
(c) Because he does not consider himself an American citizen.
(d) Because the government kills so many Indians in the past.

9. Why does Victor join Alcoholics Anonymous?
(a) He stumbles and falls on James while intoxicated.
(b) He admits he has a problem.
(c) He is incarcerated for abandonment.
(d) He wants to be a good role model for James.

10. What does Thomas Builds-a-Fire stop doing after his incident twenty years ago?
(a) He stops associating with ex-convicts.
(b) He stops drinking.
(c) He stops leaving the house.
(d) He stops telling stories.

11. Why does Victor find the waitress so unusual when he is at her place?
(a) Because she has a Buddhist shrine.
(b) She grows up off of the reservation and moves to one when she is older.
(c) Because she has a Holly Hobby collection
(d) Because she is educated and has no scars.

12. What is a hallucination that Victor and his friend have at the lake?
(a) They have visions of living in a mansion.
(b) They have visions of Indians taking vengeance on the white man.
(c) They have visions of flying.
(d) They have visions of their dead relatives.

13. What does Victor do when his white lover leaves him?
(a) He goes to see his friends.
(b) He goes for a long walk.
(c) He sits around his home and mopes.
(d) He goes out dancing and talks to women.

14. What does Victor do after his parents pass out from drinking too much alcohol?
(a) He goes out to meet his friends.
(b) He begins to cry.
(c) He covers them with a blanket and goes to bed.
(d) He lies down next to them in bed.

15. What is Victor's father in the 1960's?
(a) An Indian activist.
(b) An Indian hippie.
(c) A drug addict.
(d) A rabble rouser.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Victor's aunt's reaction to her husband and son's treatment during the mouse incident?

2. What does Victor do when the waitress flirts with him?

3. What does Victor think about Indian names?

4. What happens to Dirty Joe during the incident at the carnival?

5. What happens when Victor's basketball team goes to the state finals in high school?

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