Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

What health issue was Junior born with?

• Car grease in his brain

• Missing a quarter of his brain

• A giant french fry instead of a brain

• Too much cerebral spinal fluid

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Why does Junior say he is a member of the black-eye-of-the-month club?

• His eye color is black

• His classmates beat him

• His parents beat him

• Rowdy beats him

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What is Junior's favorite hobby?

• Writing poetry

• Dancing in powwows

• Drawing

• Hanging with Rowdy

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Where does Junior live?

• Wellpinit, Washington

• The Cherokee Reservation

• Reardan, Washington

• The Spokane Reservation

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How much land was stolen from the Spokane tribe, when their reservation was created?

• 95%

• 5%

• 60%

• 57%

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Why does Junior draw cartoons instead of talk to communicate his ideas?

• He has a stutter

• Pictures are more universal than languages

• He has a low vocabulary

• He has an abnormally high voice

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Why does Oscar die?

• The kids at school throw him in a ditch

• They have no money for a doctor

• He gets food poisoning

• He's very old

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Why does chicken mean so much to Junior?

• After missing several meals, his parents buy fried chicken for dinner

• His mom is amazing at cooking chicken

• It reminds him of the chicken dancers at a powwow

• He raises chicken

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Why does Junior say that reservation Indians don't get to realize their dreams?

• They can't leave the rez

• They have no hope

• There are no jobs off the rez

• poverty

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Why were reservations created?

• To protect the lands of Native Americans

• To keep Native Americans off of land that European colonizers wanted

• To protect wildlife and the natural world from the harmful acts of humans

• To give Native Americans a place to live

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