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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thomas Builds-a-Fire do during the incident twenty years ago?
(a) He punches a bystander.
(b) He runs from the police.
(c) He surrenders.
(d) He leaves his wallet at the scene.

2. Why is Victor's friend able to afford beer for the party at the lake?
(a) He receives a check from the government.
(b) He sells some bootleg liquor.
(c) He has a job.
(d) He inherits land that is used by large corporations.

3. What is Thomas Builds-a-Fire known for?
(a) Telling stories.
(b) Being a ladies man.
(c) Being a book worm.
(d) Walking miles a day.

4. What condition does Victor suffer from when his white lover leaves him?
(a) Insomnia.
(b) A migraine.
(c) The flu.
(d) Vertigo.

5. Who chases Victor and his companion after the incident with Dirty Joe at the carnival?
(a) Security guards.
(b) A group of teens.
(c) A pack of dogs.
(d) Dirty Joe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Victor's father unable to buy the year before?

2. What does Thomas Builds-a-Fire stop doing after his incident twenty years ago?

3. Why is Thomas Builds-a-Fire been incarcerated recently?

4. What do Victor and the waitress discuss at her place?

5. How does Thomas Builds-a-Fire assist Victor after his father passes away?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Victor's sisters put food coloring in the potatoes while growing up?

2. What happens when Victor and Adrian are drinking Pepsi's on the front porch?

3. What happens to Samuel-Builds-a-Fire on his birthday?

4. What event leads Thomas Builds-a-Fire to stop telling stories?

5. What are the "hurricanes" that are plaguing the Indian reservation?

6. What do Sadie and Victor do with Dirty Joe at the carnival?

7. What is Victor's opinion about 7-11 stores?

8. Why do Victor's father and mother divorce?

9. What does Norma say about Indians?

10. Why does the clerk at the 7-11 think Victor is a criminal?

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