Chapter 19-22 Reading Comprehension Questions

Chapters 19-22

1.) What is the expression of the 7-11 clerk as Victor enters the store?

2.) How does Victor described his previous girlfriend?

3.) How does Victor explain different events in his life?

4.) Name one event that Victor uses to explain with his method?

5.) Why are Native Americans in danger of losing their culture?

6.) Who is Norma and James Many Horses?

7.) Why does the narrator's father cries into his food at the end of the story?

8.) What is the witness protection program?

Chapter 13-18 Reading Comprehension Questions

Chapters 13-18

1.) What is a fry bread?

2.) Who is Samuel-Builds-a-Fire?

3.) Why does Victor only writes negative, dark stories when his mother always questions him?

4.) What happen to Uncle Moses?

5.) Who is Arnold?

6.) How is the piano significant in chapter 15?

7.) What does survival = anger x imagination mean?

8.) Why does Victor use imagination to ponder how historical events could have been different?

9.) What is a commodity cheese?

10.) How is humor/laughter used against the police injustices towards the Indians?

11.) What some of the traits of Victor's second grade teacher?

12.) why did the teacher tell him to cut off his braids?

Vocabulary Chpt 13- 22

• Dissonance pg. 146 
• Harsh sounds
• Describing the things Victor was hearing
• Etch pg. 146 
• To produce an object by a method
• To clarify what the object was
• Cryptology pg. 152 
• Study of techniques of secret writings, like codes
• Adrian wants to lean about codes 
• Penicillin pg. 153
• Any of several antibiotics of low toxicity 
• Describing how strong a song can be
• Succinct pg. 158 
• Expressed in few words
• Describing how Suzy respond to Victor's question 
• Eulogy pg. 161
• A speech or writing about a person or thing
• Explaining what Raymond was about to start to do 
•  Epileptic pg. 193
• Related to a disorder of the nervous system
• Describing Victor's father seizures  

Vocabulary Chpt. 9- 12

• Penance pg. 83
• A punishment undergone in token of wrongdoing for sin
• Describe the way he felt while he was dancing  
• Vague pg. 85
• Not clearly
• To describe the images he is seeing
• Stagger pg. 88
• To move, walk, or stand unsteadily 
• To describe how Victor's mother was acting while she was drunk
• Intertribal pg. 90
• occurring between two tribes
• To describe Victor's gesture to a stranger 
• Mitigating pg. 96 
• Make less severe, serious, or painful
• Describe how the circumstances Thomas is in are not that serious
• Crevices pg. 114
• a crack forming an opening 
• Explained the places where Victor was cleaning James
• Sole pg. 115
• The bottom or under surface of the foot
• Another way to say he doesnt have blister on the bottom of ames feet
• Venison pg. 117 
• the flesh of a deer
• That is what Victor and James are going to eat for dinner

Chapter 7-12 Reading Comprehension Questions

Chapters 7-12

1.) Why did Thomas-Builds-the-Fire and Victor went to Phoenix, Texas?

2.) Who is Jim Thorpe?

3.) What did the beaded dress symbolized in the story?

4.) Why was the Aunt tricked into signing the BIA documents at the hospital?

5.) Why did Victor go to Montana?

6.) Why does Victor continues to drink and feels upset at the world for its difficulties?

7.) How could the letter on pages 96-97 be thought as a metaphor?

8.) What were the lies and broken promises the whites made to the Indians?

9.) What did the Indians burn down?

10.) Who is tremble dancer?

11.) What is James' slow development a metaphor for?

12.) What is the attitude of the white doctors?

Chapters 4-6 summaries

   In chapter 4, Victor meets an Indian lady at the fry bread stand. They go back to her winnebago and share their fears. After realizing that the lady didn't have scars, Victor leaves because he thinks she is not a real Indian.
   In chapter 5, Victor and his friend Adrian talk about basketball heroes. Julius Windmaker was the best basketball player on the reservation at the time but he ruined his chances of making it big because of alcohol. Alcohol is seen as a problem on the reservation. Lastly, we find out that Victor was also a basketball player and that there was a third grader who may be the next best basketball player.
   In chapter 6, Victor goes to a carnival with Sadie and Dirty Joe. Dirty Joe was drunk so Victor and Sadie put him on a ride which gets them into trouble with the security.

Vocabulary Chpt 5-8

• Optimistic pg. 49
• Hopeful
• The author uses this word to describe how hard it is to be hopeful for a good reservations 
• Enit pg. 51
• To agree
• Nazareth pg. 52
• Home of Mary and Joseph in the Bible
• The author uses this when he picture Jesus Christ as a great basketball player  
• Lain pg. 68
• Past tense of lay
• To describe the condition Victor's dad was in when he died 
• Pterodactyl pg.78
• A type of dinosaur 
• Victor's aunt was mad at her son and husband so much she wanted a dinosaur to eat them  

Vocabulary chapters 1-4

• HUD pg. 1
• Department of Housing and Urban development
• he uses this word to describe the way the basement looks.
• intelligible pg. 2:
• not capable of being understood
• he uses to describe the yelling between his uncle 

• Commodity pg. 5
• something of use or value
• He uses it to describe  the value of the food
• Van Gogh pg.15
•  a famous Dutch painter
•  he uses it to describe how beautiful  
• Loincloths pg. 20
• a piece of cloth worn around the loins or hip
• Explains what the boys were wearing while they were acting like "real" Indians

• Ferocity pg. 27
• Savage fierceness 
• He used it to describe the love that his mother had for his father  
• Alumnus pg. 39
• A graduate student
• He used this word to explain that all Indians were educated