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

2. In what year did Chief Massasoit's land deal with the colonists take place?
(a) 1675.
(b) 1621.
(c) 1702.
(d) 1605.

3. What is the main source of Edwin's insecurity about his appearance?
(a) He has skin abnormalities.
(b) He is overweight.
(c) He only has one eye.
(d) He is bald.

4. How old is Tony Loneman?
(a) 30.
(b) 21.
(c) 25.
(d) 28.

5. What problem does Edwin Black suffer from at the beginning of the chapter that introduces his character?
(a) Migraine headaches.
(b) Constipation.
(c) Eczema.
(d) Colitis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Octavio and Tony Loneman have in common and bond over in conversation?

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

3. Dene tells the panel that which of the following is a reason that people are not interested in Native stories?

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

5. Which rapper does Tony Loneman like listening to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. According to the prologue narrator, what happened following another shared meal between Indians and colonists in 1623, two years after the land-deal meal?

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

5. How would you describe Edwin's relationship with his mother, Karen?

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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