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“This morning I pick up the sports page and read the headline: INDIANS LOSE AGAIN.
Go ahead and tell me none of this is supposed to hurt me very much.”
a) *”Indian Education”
b) “Every Little Hurricane”
c) “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi
Hendrix Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock”
d) “The Fun House”
“Sometimes it’s called passing out and sometimes it’s just pretending to be asleep.”
“He Who Crawls Silently Through the Grass with a Small Bow and One Bad Arrow
Hunting for Enough Deer to Feed the Whole Tribe”
“She walked into the house, didn’t say a word to her stunned husband and son, and pulled
that heaviest of beaded dresses over her head. Her knees buckled and she almost fell
from the weight; then she didn’t fall.”
“I’m going to travel to Spokane Falls one last time and toss these ashes into the water.
And your father will rise like a salmon, leap over the bridge, over me, and find his way
home.”
a) “Indian Education”
b) “A Drug Called Tradition”
c) “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix
Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock”
d) *“This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona”
“I tell them he’s almost four years old and they say his physical development is slow but
that’s normal for an Indian child.”
a) “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix
Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock”
b) “Every Little Hurricane”
c) *“Jesus Christ’s Half-Brother Is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation”
d) “A Train Is an Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some Result”
“Some people liked the rain. But Victor hated it. Really hated it. The damp. Humidity.
Low clouds and lies. Weathermen. When it was raining, Victor would apologize to
everyone he talked to.”
“Once, she gave the class a spelling test but set me aside and gave me a test designed for
junior high students. When I spelled all the word tight, she crumples up the paper and
made me eat it.”
a) “Jesus Christ’s Half-Brother Is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation”
b) “Crazy Horse Dreams”
c) * “A Drug Called Tradition”
d) “Indian Education”
“Then she was afraid of the man naked beside her, under her, afraid of that man who was
simple in clothes and cowboy boots, a feather in a bottle.”
a) “Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi
Hendrix Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock”
b) “A Train Is an Order of Occurrence Designed to Lead to Some Result”
c) *“Crazy Horse Dreams”
d) “Every Little Hurricane”
“’I can lend you the money you need,’ Thomas said suddenly, ‘But you have to take me
with you.’”
a) satire
b) symbolism
c) *irony
d) foreshadowing
43. Which one of the following quotes best explains why Samuel Builds-the-Fire kills
himself after losing his job?
(A) *“there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and
that he has no map to guide him toward the future.”
(B) “When Samuel was younger, before he was even a husband and father, he would win
bets by telling stories constructed by random objects.”
(C) “But he understood that his children were busy, busy, busy.”
(D) “Samuel left home nearly half an hour before he was supposed to clock in.”
44. “The Indians drank in eight-hour shifts.” What is ironic about this quote?
(A) one would not expect Indians to drink so much
(B) *people usually work in eight-hour shifts rather than drinking
(C) there were no bars in town, so it’s impossible for the Indians to be drinking
(D) surprisingly, the Indians were just drinking apple juice