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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to John-John's brother Joseph?
(a) He is wounded.
(b) He is taken as a prisoner of war.
(c) He is killed in the Vietnam War.
(d) He is a deserter.

2. What is one of John-John's talents?
(a) Playing basketball.
(b) Telling stories.
(c) Woodworking.
(d) Singing.

3. What does John-John imagine he hears?
(a) A bus.
(b) A helicopter landing.
(c) A jet landing.
(d) A ship coming into port.

4. Why do Victor's sisters put food coloring in the potatoes while growing up?
(a) Because they think the meal looks too bland.
(b) To imagine they are eating different foods.
(c) Because they think it looks pretty.
(d) Because they could not afford Play-doh.

5. How does Victor describe Uncle Moses?
(a) A man that is remembered by all.
(b) An embarassment to the family.
(c) A man of great virtue.
(d) He is the town drunk.

6. Where is the location for Victor's imagination?
(a) His back porch.
(b) The 7-11.
(c) A bar.
(d) A gas station.

7. What do Victor's siblings commonly do with a car while growing up?
(a) Sniff gas from the exhaust pipe.
(b) They siphon gas and sell it.
(c) They throw rocks at the cars.
(d) Go joy riding.

8. What news does Samuel-builds-a-fire receive at work?
(a) A co-worker passes away.
(b) His boss is arrested.
(c) He is doing a different job.
(d) He is being let go from his job.

9. What does the psychic child advise Victor to do?
(a) To stand on his roof and shout at people walking by.
(b) To put glue on his body and roll around in leaves.
(c) To build a tree house and live there for a month.
(d) To break all of the mirrors in the house and tape them to his body.

10. How does Junior Polatkin and the blonde girl's short relationship end?
(a) They have a really big fight.
(b) Junior's parents forbid him to see her.
(c) The blonde girl becomes pregnant and has the baby.
(d) The blonde girl runs off with another guy.

11. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's talent?
(a) Playing basketball.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Playing the trumpet.
(d) Telling stories.

12. Where does Jimmy One-horse and his wife first meet?
(a) At Cindy's fry bread stand.
(b) At the Powwow Tavern.
(c) At a party.
(d) In high school.

13. What does Victor's teacher want him to do in the second grade?
(a) To write with his right hand and wear cleaner clothing.
(b) To perform math problems on the board in front of the class and testify before the state court about how his parents are mistreating him.
(c) To apologize for everything and cut off his braids.
(d) To do his homework at school because she does not think he is doing his own work.

14. What is the nature of the gift that the person whom Uncle Moses befriends?
(a) Improbable.
(b) Overlooked.
(c) Not marketable.
(d) Rare.

15. Why do Victor and his girlfriend once fight in the dark?
(a) Because Victor breaks all of the lamps.
(b) Because she does not pay her electric bill.
(c) Because they pay more attention to what they are saying.
(d) Because it is more romantic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor say about life off of the reservation?

2. Where do Junior and the blond girl run into each other during Christmas break?

3. What does Victor imagine happens to Christopher Columbus?

4. What does the clerk at the 7-11 give to Victor?

5. What does Victor talk about during his high school years?

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