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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 Manny used to leave on the table in envelopes for Daniel and his mother?
(a) Instructions.
(b) Money.
(c) Herbs.
(d) Kind notes.

2. What is Harvey's role at the powwow?
(a) Emcee.
(b) Sponsor.
(c) Janitor.
(d) Dancer.

3. Why does Jacquie Red Feather travel to Phoenix?
(a) She is there for a work conference on substance abuse.
(b) She is there to meet a friend in need.
(c) She is there to go to a cooking class.
(d) She is there for her grandmother's funeral.

4. How does Opal know the Red Feather brothers are trying to hide something from her the night before the powwow?
(a) All three boys go to bed early.
(b) Orvil and Loother help Lony do the dishes.
(c) All three boys are unusually quite.
(d) All three boys put their phones away.

5. Why does Blue not want to leave the bus station bathroom?
(a) She needs to keep her friend company.
(b) She is having digestive trouble.
(c) She is embarrassed about how she looks.
(d) She is afraid Paul will see her and force her to come back with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Bill's favorite activity in jail?

2. What does Loother forget to bring to the powwow?

3. What is the name of Calvin Johnson's brother?

4. Who is responsible for the deaths of Octavio's mother and brother?

5. What kind of music does Opal like to listen to while she works?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Octavio's grandmother Josefina think her own father cursed her?

2. What did Opal tell Lucas when they were teenagers that she had not shared with anyone else?

3. How does Octavio feel about his uncle Sixto?

4. Why is Calvin an integral part of the plot to rob the Big Oakland Powwow, even though he does not really want to be involved?

5. What bizarre story does Harvey tell Jacquie as they drive together from Phoenix to Oakland?

6. In the interlude, what does the narrator say about last names as they relate to Natives?

7. Why does Opal take care of her half-sister Jacquie's three grandsons instead of Jacquie taking care of them?

8. What is Daniel Gonzales's role in the robbery of the Big Oakland Powwow?

9. What does Bill try to catch out of annoyance when he sees it as he is preforming his maintenance duties at the Oakland Coliseum?

10. What is one of Bill Davis's great enthusiasms in life?

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