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Because my Father Always Said he was the Only Indian who saw Jimi Hendrix Play . . .
The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash red Anymore
This is What it Means to say Phoenix, Arizona.
Sherman Alexie
Smoke Signals

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1. Where did the speaker’s father go after he got out of jail?
What is a. Woodstock
100
1. What sport is prevalent throughout “The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash red Anymore”?
What is basketball
100
1. What did they hit and kill in the truck?
What is a jackrabbit
100
1. What mode of transportation does he use?
What is car, bus or train
100
1. Who was thrown out of the burning house?
What is thomas
200
2. What artist did the speaker’s father listen to all of the time?
What is Jimi Hendrix
200
2. What biblical figure were basketball players compared to on the reservation?
What is christ
200
2. What mode of transportation did they use to get to Phoenix?
What is airplane
200
2. When did he leave the reservation?
What is age 14
200
2. What did Victor do with the knife?
What is cut his hair
300
3. Where did the speaker’s father end up?
What is Phoenix
300
What ended Julius’s basketball career?
What is Alcohol
300
3. What profession did the person who sat next to them during their travels have?
What is gymnast
300
3. How did he get to stay in the white man’s high school?
He stays with a white family.
300
3. What animal did Thomas compare Victor’s father to?
What is salmon
400
Who abandoned Victor?
What is his father
400
4. What’s the name of the speaker?
What is Victor
400
4. Why did they go to Phoenix?
What is to get victors fathers ashes
400
4. How did his sister die?
What is A fire in her home because of alcohol.
400
4. Where were the ashes thrown?
What is the river
500
How was Victor conceived? During a drunken night.
What is During a drunken night.
500
5. What is the end of Julius’s career compared to?
What is a funeral
500
5. What did Victor give Thomas after they got back to the reservation?
What is 2nd box of his fathers ashes
500
5. Why did he stop drinking? a.
What is He drove drunk once, left the car running on the side of the rode and walked home. The next day the cops stopped by thinking it was stolen.
500
5. How did they get to Phoenix?
What is a bus