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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 word did Dene used to write, or "tag," everywhere he could?
(a) Lens.
(b) Like.
(c) Live.
(d) Evil.

2. Who is Edwin's father?
(a) Thomas.
(b) Dene.
(c) Bill.
(d) Harvey.

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

4. What was Chief Massasoit's son's name?
(a) Lackawanna.
(b) Metacomet.
(c) Flying Eagle.
(d) Sitting Bull.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which real-life Native author's book did Tony Loneman read to his grandmother?

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

3. Which famous writer does the hipster Rob quote to Dene as he is waiting to go in to his grant interview?

4. What is Edwin's mother's name?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. What does the prologue narrator say was the true main purpose of the first meal in 1621 between Indians and colonists that Americans now celebrate and commemorate as Thanksgiving?

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

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

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

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