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Challenge Questions
100

How Tony hides the bullets at the powwow.

What is dumping them into socks and throwing them into the bushes?

100

The city the Powwow takes place in.

What is Oakland?

100

This is the island where Opal and Jacquie participated in the Native American occupation in 1970.

What is Alcatraz?

100

The spider’s web represents ______ in Native culture.

What is a trap and a home? 

100

Dene’s graffiti tag.

What is Lens?

200

The name of Opal’s stuffed teddy bear.

What is Two Shoes?

200

How Edwin first gets in touch with his dad.

What is Facebook by pretending to be his mom?

200

This is the state where Jacquie works as a substance abuse counselor and where she meets Harvey again.

What is New Mexico?

200

Opal imagines the Indian head test pattern on the TV saying ____ to her after she hits Ronald with the bat.

What is "Go"?

200

How Tony finds out he has the drome.

What is his grandmother Maxine tells him after he badly beats up another kid at the park for asking Tony why his face "look[s] like that"(15)?

300

The object Bill uses to hit Daniel’s drone.

What is a trash grabber?

300

Medicine people in There There. (Name at least 3)

Who are Octavio, Tony, Blue, Sixto, Ronald?

300

This is the neighborhood where Dene grew up and where he interviews people for his storytelling project.

What is Fruitvale?

300

In the book’s prologue Tommy Orange tells an old Cheyenne story about a rolling head. It symbolizes ____.

What is Colonization?

300

The kind of car Manny and Octavio steal.

What is a Lexus?

400

The amount of money Dene pays Orvil for his story.

What is $200?

400

A measurement of what percentage of someone's blood is Native. Is used to determine tribal membership.

What is blood quantum?

400

This is the place where Tony meets Maxine, a woman who helps him cope with his condition and gives him a job.

What is the Indian Center?

400

The yacht story from the interlude represents _____.

What is privilege/the myth of meritocracy?

400

The amount of days sober is Jacquie when she introduces herself at the AA meeting.

What is 11 days?

500

Jacquie decides to do _____ with the alcohol bottles from the mini fridge.

What is throw them into the hotel pool?

500

How Thomas Frank dies.

What is a stray bullet/crossfire?

500

Where the Native blood quantum was introduced in 1705. (Hint: the answer is not in the actual story, but in the more factual sections)

What is the Virginia Colony?

500

Octavio shoots the mourning dove in his backyard because _____.

What is it reminds him of his dad and the grief of losing him?

500

The computer game Edwin logged two whole years on.

What is Second Life?