Absolute TD pages 114 - 151

What advice does Rowdy give Junior about love?

• Go get it! Nomadic people attract their opposites.

• You are not earnest. Get a life.

• Embrace eccentricity. Get weird, stay weird.

• Stay monotonous and have a safer love life.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Junior seems to think that being Indian, he can't get a white girl to fall in love with him. Gordy calls him ________________for making this assumption. One's culture should not be an _______________ love.​

• loser, articulate

• racist, impediment

• rude, secede

• cruel, nomadic

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is Junior's #1 worry at the dance?

• falling on his face while dancing

• being crowned "winter formal king & queen"

• not having money for a picture or diner food

• getting beat up by Roger

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CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Penelope cries _____________ tears for Junior when he finally admits to her that he is poor and sometimes has to hitchhike home to the rez.

• nomadic

• decrepit

• scintillating

• earnest

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Gordy and Junior decide to be a tribe of two. The boys both ______________ the urge to hug one another.

• demoralize

• articulate

• eccentricity

• repressed

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Junior's sister, Mary, is no longer looking for a job. Her income in no longer indeterminate.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Why does Junior participate in basketball during the "Reindeer Games" chapter?

• To embrace his eccentricity

• To avoid other monotonous activities

• To scintillate the audience
  & other players

• To help him secede from his tribe

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Junior wouldn't let the coach and Roger demoralize him. He kept going hard in each drill during tryouts to prove he belonged on the team.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Junior was articulate enough to express to Eugene the importance of playing in the game. Eugene agreed with Junior and stitched him up right then in the locker room.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

How did the Spokane Indians at the basketball game prove they want Junior to secede from the rez?

• they slash his dad's tires in the parking lot

• while in the stands, they silently turn their backs on him

• someone hits him in the head with a quarter

• they call in a bomb threat to Reardon HS

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3