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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 did Edwin once dream of becoming?
(a) A writer.
(b) A musician.
(c) A mathematician.
(d) An astronaut.

2. Who is the Italian actor that often played Indian parts in movies and television programs?
(a) Frederico Fellini.
(b) Angelo Ribisi.
(c) Iron Eyes Cody.
(d) Matteo Baghetti.

3. Which writer is quoted at the beginning of Part I?
(a) Raymond Carver.
(b) Javier Marias.
(c) George Saunders.
(d) William Faulkner.

4. Which food is mentioned in the prologue as Native but not traditional?
(a) Applesauce.
(b) Corn.
(c) Fry Bread.
(d) Pita.

5. What Radiohead song does Dene listen to on the way to his grant interview?
(a) Creeping.
(b) Crazy star.
(c) Stir.
(d) There There.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Dene's uncle who inspires his video project?

2. Where did the colonists display Metacomet's head after they killed him?

3. What happens to Edwin when he completes his first sit-up?

4. What does Tony Loneman call his own face?

5. What was Chief Massasoit's son's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What steps does Edwin Black take in order to try to find his father for the first time?

2. What does "the Drome" mean to Tony Loneman?

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

4. What was the first novel written by a Native person about?

5. What was the old Cheyenne story in the prologue about?

6. 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?

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

8. Where does Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield's mother take she and her half-sister Jacquie after they abruptly move out of the yellow house in Oakland?

9. What do Dene Oxendene and the white hipster named Rob talk about as they both wait for their art grant interviews?

10. What was moving Indians to urban centers and cities supposed to have accomplished?

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