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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Victor, what about an Indian boy is beautiful?
(a) His hair.
(b) His hands.
(c) His laughter.
(d) His eyes.

2. Why is one of Victor's girlfriends afraid of him?
(a) Because he is often angry.
(b) Because he is always writing and she does not know what he writes.
(c) Because he is an Indian.
(d) Because he seems mentally unstable.

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

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

5. What does Junior Polatkin tell the blonde girl what it is like being an Indian at the university?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Like a celebrity.
(c) Like an outcast.
(d) Like he is in an aquarium.

6. What does Victor imagine happens to Christopher Columbus?
(a) A tribe of Indians drown him.
(b) His ship is captured by pirates and he never returns.
(c) His ship gets lost at sea.
(d) He actually makes it to India instead of the United States.

7. When does Victor have his first experiences with drugs?
(a) In the fifth and sixth grades.
(b) In the seventh and eighth grades.
(c) In the fourth and fifth grades.
(d) In the sixth and seventh grades.

8. Why is Jimmy One-Horse's wife upset at him?
(a) Jimmy has an affair with another woman.
(b) Jimmy is verbally abusive to her.
(c) Jimmy has cancer and makes jokes about it.
(d) He keeps leaving the toilet seat up.

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

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

11. 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.

12. When does Jimmy One-horse's wife return after leaving him?
(a) When she has a change of heart.
(b) When Jimmy is hospitalized.
(c) When Jimmy pleas with her to return.
(d) When her mother dies.

13. What does Victor's father describe while starting a car in the winter?
(a) The first car his family owns.
(b) Not owning a pair of snow boots while growing up.
(c) The cruel treatment he experiences in school while growing up.
(d) The first television show he sees.

14. What is held up at the barbecue?
(a) A baby.
(b) A picture.
(c) A fist.
(d) A can of beer.

15. Why does Junior Polatkin fall in love with the blonde girl in history class?
(a) He believes she is very worldly.
(b) He thinks she is attractive.
(c) He thinks she is smart.
(d) He believes she understands what it is like for Indians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor's father not know about the man who disappears?

2. What does Victor recount about one time Victor's father is drunk while growing up?

3. What happens when Victor drives into a wealthy neighborhood?

4. How does Victor's father kill a man?

5. What is the nature of the gift that the person whom Uncle Moses befriends?

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