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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hurtful thing does John-John imagine about Joseph's return?
(a) Saying he is home briefly then leaves again.
(b) That Joseph does not remember him.
(c) Joseph reprimanding him for not taking better care of their mother.
(d) Joseph reprimanding him for not writing.

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

3. Where do Junior and the blond girl run into each other during Christmas break?
(a) While checking his mailbox.
(b) At a bus station.
(c) At a diner.
(d) At a bar.

4. What gift does the person whom Uncle Moses befriends have?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Painting.
(c) Playing basketball.
(d) Leadership.

5. What does Victor use to explain different events in his life?
(a) The grades he is in during school.
(b) By the cars his family own.
(c) The television.
(d) The periods after each sibling is born.

6. What does Victor say about life off of the reservation?
(a) It is mesmerizing.
(b) It is like a bad dream you never wake up from.
(c) It makes him paranoid.
(d) It is like heaven.

7. What happens after Nora visits the Powwow Tavern?
(a) She passes out.
(b) She stops by her mother's grave.
(c) She usually takes someone home with her.
(d) She stops by a diner.

8. What is Victor's equation for survival?
(a) Survival = Skills X Stamina.
(b) Survival = Anger X Imagination.
(c) Survival = Determination X Imagination.
(d) Survival = Ingenuity X Stamina.

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

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

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

12. What does Victor's father not know about the man who disappears?
(a) Who shoots him.
(b) Who his next of kin are.
(c) Where he lives.
(d) Where he is last seen.

13. 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.

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

15. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's job title?
(a) Store clerk.
(b) Landscaper.
(c) Construction worker.
(d) Maid at a motel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Victor compare diabetes to?

2. What is Samuel-builds-a-fire's reaction to the news he receives at work?

3. Why is one of Victor's girlfriends afraid of him?

4. Why does Victor's mother not like the stories he writes?

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

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