Characters
How Tony hides the bullets at the powwow.
What is dumping them into socks and throwing them into the bushes?
The city the Powwow takes place in.
What is Oakland?
This is the island where Opal and Jacquie participated in the Native American occupation in 1970.
What is Alcatraz?
The spider’s web represents ______ in Native culture.
What is a trap and a home?
Dene’s graffiti tag.
What is Lens?
The name of Opal’s stuffed teddy bear.
What is Two Shoes?
How Edwin first gets in touch with his dad.
What is Facebook by pretending to be his mom?
This is the state where Jacquie works as a substance abuse counselor and where she meets Harvey again.
What is New Mexico?
Opal imagines the Indian head test pattern on the TV saying ____ to her after she hits Ronald with the bat.
What is "Go"?
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)?
The object Bill uses to hit Daniel’s drone.
What is a trash grabber?
Medicine people in There There. (Name at least 3)
Who are Octavio, Tony, Blue, Sixto, Ronald?
This is the neighborhood where Dene grew up and where he interviews people for his storytelling project.
What is Fruitvale?
In the book’s prologue Tommy Orange tells an old Cheyenne story about a rolling head. It symbolizes ____.
What is Colonization?
The kind of car Manny and Octavio steal.
What is a Lexus?
The amount of money Dene pays Orvil for his story.
What is $200?
A measurement of what percentage of someone's blood is Native. Is used to determine tribal membership.
What is blood quantum?
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?
The yacht story from the interlude represents _____.
What is privilege/the myth of meritocracy?
The amount of days sober is Jacquie when she introduces herself at the AA meeting.
What is 11 days?
Jacquie decides to do _____ with the alcohol bottles from the mini fridge.
What is throw them into the hotel pool?
How Thomas Frank dies.
What is a stray bullet/crossfire?
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?
Octavio shoots the mourning dove in his backyard because _____.
What is it reminds him of his dad and the grief of losing him?
The computer game Edwin logged two whole years on.
What is Second Life?