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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Ts’eh have Tayo’s cattle corralled?
(a) She sung them calm then put them in her corral
(b) They ran into a arroyo with a dead end
(c) She enticed them with hay
(d) Her cattle dog herded them
2. Who does the woman tell Josiah she dances for in the present?
(a) Her customers
(b) No one but him
(c) Her grandchildren
(d) Her husband
3. Where did the medicine man first go to school?
(a) Tahoe
(b) Gallup
(c) Salt Lake City
(d) Riverside, Ca
4. What color is the beard of the store keeper where Tayo tries to buy some candy?
(a) Black
(b) Red
(c) Blond
(d) Brown
5. What kind of job does Helen Jean get in Gallup?
(a) Theater janitor
(b) Cook
(c) Waitress
(d) Secretary
6. What is the worst thing for Tayo when in the war?
(a) The lack of privacy
(b) The sound of crickets
(c) The sound of artillery exploding
(d) The rain
7. Who bought the Ford coupe that Tayo’s friends pick him up in to go to the bar?
(a) Leroy
(b) Tayo
(c) Emo
(d) Harley
8. How does the Japanese soldier kill Rocky?
(a) Shooting him
(b) Hitting his head with a rifle butt
(c) Stabbing him in the heart
(d) Breaking his neck
9. What is the name of the Apache sheepherder Auntie has?
(a) Geronimo
(b) White Cloud
(c) Mike
(d) Daniel
10. What does Old Grandma tell Auntie Tayo needs?
(a) A sweat lodge
(b) A medicine man
(c) To get into a good fight
(d) To return to the war
11. In one of the poems, who is Reed Woman's sister?
(a) Corn Woman
(b) Sky Woman
(c) Tree Woman
(d) Sand Woman
12. What do the old singers send to Descheeny?
(a) Patients they cannot cure
(b) Bottles of liquor
(c) Any animal who is injured
(d) Boxes of tobacco
13. When does Lalo retire and close his bar?
(a) Right before the war starts
(b) During the war
(c) He still has the bar
(d) After the war
14. Who bootlegs beer to the Indians?
(a) The Red Rooster Tavern
(b) Lalo
(c) Stan Blackburn
(d) Petricia
15. What does Josiah’s mistress say frightens most people?
(a) Change
(b) Dying of thirst in the desert
(c) Death
(d) Losing one’s identity
Short Answer Questions
1. How is Tayo able to anticipate Auntie’s mood?
2. Why is Tayo happy it starts snowing the morning after his encounter with the fence patrol?
3. What does Harley say riding in the truck at top speed is better than?
4. What does the medicine man say the white doctors do with the dead in the mental hospitals?
5. In May where does Tayo tell his family he is going to go?
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