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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. Which famous writer does the hipster Rob quote to Dene as he is waiting to go in to his grant interview?
(a) Jane Austen.
(b) Gertrude Stein.
(c) Edith Wharton.
(d) Dorothy Parker.

2. What is Dene's mother's name?
(a) Blue.
(b) Jaquie.
(c) Opal.
(d) Norma.

3. Who is Tony Loneman's grandmother?
(a) Josefina.
(b) Jacquie.
(c) Maxine.
(d) Opal.

4. What illness does Opal's mother tell Opal she is suffering from?
(a) Multiple Sclerosis.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Cancer.

5. Dene tells the panel that which of the following is a reason that people are not interested in Native stories?
(a) Stereotypes of the Native story are too sad to even be entertaining.
(b) No one can afford to pay Natives to tell their stories.
(c) Natives have been too scared to tell their stories.
(d) Whites have completely distorted Natives' stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Orange mention that describes an Indian that supposedly acts white?

2. What young boy does Opal befriend on Alcatraz?

3. What was the title of the first novel ever written by a Native person?

4. What is the name of the relative Opal's mother leaves she and Jacquie with?

5. Who is Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield's half-sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Metacomet, the Wampanoag Indian Chief?

2. What are some of the media representations of Indians that are mentioned critically in the prologue?

3. What life-altering event happens to Jacquie on Alcatraz?

4. What did the colonists do to the Pequot at the Green Corn Dance in 1637?

5. How does Opal and Jacquie's mother decide to manage her illness when she finds out she has cancer?

6. Where does the prologue narrator say the Indian Head image appeared until the late 1970s?

7. What is the main issue that Dene is insecure about as he goes into his interview for his arts grant application?

8. Orange opens the prologue with a Bertolt Brecht poem about singing in dark times. How is this poem relevant to Native history as Orange writes about it in There There?

9. Who is Dene Oxendene's inspiration for his video storytelling project on Natives?

10. What is the one main thing that Tony Loneman and Octavio Gomez have in common?

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