The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven
Chapter 2: A Drug Called Tradition

1. Why would Big Mom give Victor a small drum? What does the small drum symbolize?

2. From who or where did Victor get the drugs from?

3. Why is Thomas’ fridge always empty?

4. Why do Indians make the best cowboys?

5. Who is the narrator of the story?

6. Why do they refer to Crazy Horse in their singing?

7. Where did Thomas get money?

8. Who is Big Mom?

9. What does Victor say you have to do about your skeleton? What do the skeletons represent?

10. Why was Junior doing doughnuts across empty fields?

11. What kind of drug was Junior going to use?

12. Who paid for the party? Why does he feel it’s not his?

13. What kind of dance is a ghost dance?

14. What kind of car does Junior have?

15. How old are the narrator and his friends?

16. Mushrooms, what are they?

17. What did the boys hallucinate? Thomas: Victor: Junior:

18. Explain how the settlers used blankets to kill Native Americans?

19. What name do they give the imaginary president? Why?

20. Explain why a Native American is dancing naked in the story?

21. What was the message in the song?

22. Why does Thomas like to tell stories? How do others feel about him?

23. Why is Thomas spending money on the party if he has no food in his fridge?

24. What did Thomas mean when he told Victor and Junior not to slow dance with their skeletons?

25. Why did one of them imagine that the boys decide to spill the alcohol instead of drinking it?