Ms. Blok's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Review

Question 1

Fig Lang: "my mind and heart had a quick meeting and voted to shut down for repairs."

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 2

What is Reardan's High School mascot?

Accepted Answer

Indian

Question 3

Lit. Device: "you have to love somebody that much to hate them that much, too."

Accepted Answer

paradox

Question 4

What are Arnold's grandmother's last words?

Accepted Answer

"Forgive him."

Question 5

Who is Arnold's geometry teacher at Wellpinit High School?

Accepted Answer

Mr. P

Question 6

Fill in the blank. "There is another ____________, but it is in this one." -- W.B. Yeats

Accepted Answer

world

Question 7

What can the reader infer about how Rowdy's father treats Rowdy and his mother?

Accepted Answer

He is violent towards them.

Question 8

Who is Arnold's best friend from the Spokane Reservation?

Accepted Answer

Rowdy

Question 9

Figurative language: "And brain grease works inside the lobes like car grease works."

Accepted Answer

simile

Question 10

She is Arnold's older sister who leaves home...

Accepted Answer

Mary

Question 11

What does Rowdy mean by he is tired of Indian men treating white women like "bowling trophies"?

Accepted Answer

That the Indian men view white women as a reward.

Question 12

The white billionaire that visits the Spokane reservation is named...

Accepted Answer

Ted

Question 13

He bonds with Arnold over books at Reardan High School...

Accepted Answer

Gordy

Question 14

What upsets Arnold about his Geometry book?

Accepted Answer

It belonged to his mother.

Question 15

"No teacher had ever said anything so nice, so incredibly nice, to me." Who is this teacher?

Accepted Answer

Mr. P

Question 16

The name of Arnold's dog...

Accepted Answer

Oscar

Question 17

Who is Arnold referring to? "'So I draw... to give him other worlds to live inside."

Accepted Answer

Rowdy

Question 18

"If you think of everybody with a body, soul, and brain, then I was the opposite of __________"

Accepted Answer

Human

Question 19

Who tells Arnold, "You have to dream big to get big"?

Accepted Answer

Arnold's father

Question 20

Arnold's mother's name is...

Accepted Answer

Agnas Adams

Question 21

In the chapter "Hunger Pains" whom does Arnold hear throwing up in the bathroom?

Accepted Answer

Penelope

Question 22

Fig Lang: "He walked away. I stood there and waited for the rocks to replace my bones & blood."

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 23

According to the narrator, what is the "worst thing you can do to an Indian guy"?

Accepted Answer

Cut his hair

Question 24

Which example does not show how Rowdy is a foil to the narrator.

Accepted Answer

Rowdy likes comic books.

Question 25

Lit Device: Mary references psychiatrist Sigmund Freud when discussing mothers & sons.

Accepted Answer

allusion

Question 26

What does Arnold's father give him for Christmas?

Accepted Answer

a wrinkled and damp five dollar bill

Question 27

Who is Arnold's classmate and love interest at the Reardan High School?

Accepted Answer

Penelope

Question 28

What is not a side effect of Arnold being born "with water on the brain?"

Accepted Answer

"I was overweight"

Question 29

The narrator of the novel's real name is...

Accepted Answer

Arnold Spirit

Question 30

He is the athletic bully at Reardan High School who eventually becomes Arnold's friend...

Accepted Answer

Roger

Question 31

The teacher who is interrupted by Miss Warren to tell Arnold of his sister's accident...

Accepted Answer

Dr. Noble

Question 32

Fill in the blank. "It's all ______ and ______."

Accepted Answer

love, death

Question 33

Arnold's final words are...

Accepted Answer

"We didn't keep score."

Question 34

Arnold's Geology teacher at Reardan High School...

Accepted Answer

Mr. Sheridan

Question 35

Fill in the blank. "How to find your _________ and find your __________."

Accepted Answer

house, home

Question 36

Mr. P tells the narrator a secret. He tells him, "'You have to ____________________.'"

Accepted Answer

leave this reservation

Question 37

Lit Device: "the [wrinkled and damp five dollar bill] was a beautiful and ugly thing."

Accepted Answer

oxymoron

Question 38

Fig Lang: "But the spit made me feel like an insect."

Accepted Answer

simile

Question 39

Lit Device "She was in pain and I sort of loved her ... so I kind of had to love her pain, too"

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chiasmus

Question 40

Who is Arnold Spirit's father's best friend?

Accepted Answer

Eugene

Question 41

Who is Arnold's love interest on the Reservation?

Accepted Answer

Dawn

Question 42

What does Mr. P tell Arnold his sister wanted to do?

Accepted Answer

Write romance novels

Question 43

The adult Arnold becomes closest with at Reardan High School...

Accepted Answer

Coach

Question 44

Based on the "Unofficial and Unwritten Spokane Indian Rules of Fisticuffs" what be inferred?

Accepted Answer

All Indians should always be fighting.

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