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There There Quiz 1

1 What does the Prologue say about the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday?
It took place in 1776.

The meal we commemorate was actually a land-deal meal, not a meal of thanksgiving.

No Indians were actually there.

Two hundred Indians were poisoned from the original Thanksgiving meal.
2 How does Tony Loneman find out he has fetal alcohol syndrome?
He looks it up on the Internet after wondering about it for years.

His friend Mario tells him when they are teenagers.

His mom tells him and apologizes for drinking.

Maxine tells him when he is six after he beats up his friend for making fun of him about it.
3 How does Tony feel about the Drome?
He doesn't care about it or notice it.

He thinks it is his power and his curse.

He likes how his face looks.

He thinks he is stupid because of it.
4 Why does Tony like the rapper MF Doom?
Because he wears a mask.

Because of his line, "Got more soul than a sock with a hole."

Because they are both Native.

Because he identifies with him.
5 What kind of gun does Octavio show Tony?
A plastic gun from Walmart.

A 3D-printed gun.

Tony's own gun.

A stolen gun.
6 How does Octavio want Tony to hide the bullets as part of their scheme?
Put them in his pockets.

Ask a friend to smuggle them in for him.

Put them in a sock and throw them into the bushes.

Scatter them in the bushes the night before.
7 Where did Dene first think up his graffiti tag, 'Lens'?
In an argument with his mother, Norma.

While hanging out with his uncle Lucas.

While on the way to the interview for a cultural grant for his film project.

On the bus coming home from school.
8 Why does Rob say he and his friends are moving to West Oakland?
Because it is where Gertrude Stein grew up.

Because it's safer than East Oakland.

Because it is "dirt cheap."

Because his parents lived there.
9 Why does Dene identify with what Gertrude Stein has to say about Oakland?
Because Gertrude Stein is Native.

Because he draws a connection between her experience of Oakland and the Native experience across the Americas.

Because he has always been a big Gertrude Stein fan.

Because he grew up in the same neighborhood as Gertrude Stein.
10 What is the Native panelist's critique of Dene's project?
He thinks stories are unimportant.

He doesn't believe in paying people for their stories.

He worries Dene has no real vision for the project.

He doesn't think Dene is Native and so questions why he is doing this project.
11 When was the first time Dene held the video camera?
When he graduated from high school.

When his mom told him that his uncle Lucas had died.

At the grant interview.

When his uncle Lucas visits for the first time.
12 Where does Opal and Jacquie's mom take them after they are evicted from the yellow house in Oakland?
To their uncle Ronald's house.

To a different house in Oakland.

To Opal's father's house.

To the Indian uprising on Alcatraz Island.
13 How did Opal and Jacquie's mom try to cure her cancer?
By going to sweat ceremonies with Ronald, a medicine man.

She found treatment on Alcatraz.

With Western medicine.

She didn't do anything to treat it.
14 How does Edwin find out his tribal identity?
When he finds his father on Facebook.

When he meets his father at his new job at the Indian Center.

By asking his mother.

By doing a genealogy test.
15 Why does Edwin like the group of DJs called A Tribe Called Red?
Because they produce contemporary-sounding Indigenous music and aren't stuck in the past.

Because his father told him about them.

Because they motivate him to lose weight.

Because he feels connected to his identity when he listens to them.
16 Why does Bill disapprove of Edwin?
Because he is contemptuous of Edwin's weight.

Because Edwin is a reminder of Karen's ex.

Because he thinks Edwin is too coddled.

Because he sees Edwin as competition for his job.
17 What was Bill's experience in jail like?
He became a drug addict.

He educated himself by reading all kinds of books.

He met Karen there.

He became very depressed.
18 How does Calvin feel about his sister Maggie?
He misses the way they were close when they were kids.

He both loves and hates the way she has her life together.

He blames her for his bad luck.

He is jealous that Maggie has a child.
19 Why does Jacquie attend the "Keeping Them from Harm" conference in Pheonix?
Because she thought it would be good distraction while she tried to stay sober.

Because she knew Harvey would be there.

Because a grant for her position as a substance abuse counselor required it of her.

Because she felt guilty about her daughter's suicide.
20 How does Jacquie stay in touch with her grandsons?
Opal sends her emails with photos; she doesn't speak to them.

She doesn't even know what they look like.

She visits them in Oakland.

She talks to them on the phone every once and a while.
21 How many days has Jacquie been sober when she attends the conference?
Eleven days.

Fifty days.

One day.

Three hundred days.
22 How does Jacquie know the man running the AA meeting she attends at the conference?
He is Opal's ex-lover.

He is her ex-husband.

She recognizes him from a past AA meeting.

He was her rapist when they were teenagers on Alcatraz.
23 What does Harvey offer Jacquie?
A drink.

A lift to the next AA meeting.

Money to compensate for adoption expenses.

A ride back to Oakland.
24 What does Jacquie eventually do with the alcohol bottles in the minifridge?
She gives them to Harvey.

She throws them in the hotel pool.

She takes them with her on her way back to Oakland.

She smashes them in her room.
25 How did Orvil come into possession of his regalia?
He found it on the side of the ride?

He ordered it online.

He was searching for Christmas presents in Opal's closet.

Opal gave it to him as a Christmas present.

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