Part Time Indian

On most reservations, the casinos will pay for American Indians to live in nice houses.

• True

• False

Unemployment is very high on many reservations

• True

• False

One of the leading causes of death for Native Americans is heart disease

• True

• False

The rates of cancer, diabetes, tuberculosis, and other diseases are high for Native Americans than other Americans due in part to lack of quality health care.

• True

• False

Casinos typically provide the money that reservation Indians need to live a quality life

• True

• False

Homelessness is not a problem on reservation because people like to take care of each other.

• True

• False

Native Americans do not let relatives live with them because that is considered pushy

• True

• False

Native Americans are less likely than whites to earn a college degree or even go to college at all

• True

• False

Which is a logical explanation as to why the narrator would begin his story by talking about his brain issue?

• The narrator wants the reader to assume that he is too dumb to make all this up.

• The narrator wants to make the reader think he is going to die sometime soon

• The narrator wants the reader to feel sorry for him.

• The narrator wants the reader to know why his life is rather challenging.

Which quote helps the reader infer that the government probably still mistreats the Native Americans?

• "...the Indian Health Service funded major dental work only once a year, so I had to have all ten extra teeth pulled in one day" (2).

  
  

• "The bullies would pick me up, spin me in circles, put their finger down on my skull, and say, "I want to go there'" (3).

• "So I mostly hang out alone in my bedroom and read books and draw cartoons" (4).

• "I'm not even writing down this story the way I actually talk, because I'd have to fill it with stutters and lisps" (4).