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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ceremony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fear does Tayo hear in Auntie’s voice when Tayo is a boy?
(a) Fear of being trapped in the oldest ways
(b) Fear of Josiah
(c) Fear of Rocky liking Tayo
(d) Fear of losing Tayo

2. Where do Harley and Tayo pick up a ride after they leave the spring?
(a) Near the edge of the desert barrio
(b) On the Acoma Road
(c) Nowhere, they are riding
(d) At Harley’s house

3. Where is Thought-Woman sitting in the opening poem?
(a) In a creek bed
(b) On top of a mountain
(c) Under a tree
(d) In her room

4. What does Josiah’s mistress say frightens most people?
(a) Dying of thirst in the desert
(b) Death
(c) Losing one’s identity
(d) Change

5. What animal does Tayo see as he is laying in the pine needles where he fell while looking for the cattle inside the fence?
(a) Mountain lion
(b) Deer
(c) Wolf
(d) Coyote

Short Answer Questions

1. How did white people come to be, according to the medicine man?

2. What does the old Mexican man bring Tayo when Tayo is at the café?

3. What does Ku'oosh tell Tayo about the world?

4. What is the name of the fort that the medicine man’s grandfather did not want to have trouble with?

5. Why does medicine man say deeds and titles mean nothing to Mount Taylor?

(see the answer key)

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