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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?
(a) Summer morning.
(b) Brave soldier.
(c) Love.
(d) Beautiful son.

2. What does Ayah remember is remarkable about elkhide moccasins?
(a) They keep a person's legs warm.
(b) They keep a person's legs dry in the snow.
(c) They are handmade.
(d) They are traditional shoes.

3. As Ayah sits in the snow, what does she think about her shoes?
(a) She remembers going barefoot in the summer.
(b) She remembers her traditional shoes of moccasins.
(c) She thinks she needs to get new ones.
(d) She thinks that her shoes are too large.

4. Who are the Yeibechei?
(a) Another Native American tribe.
(b) Ayah's relatives.
(c) Navajo holy people.
(d) The elders.

5. Who came to tell Ayah that her remaining two children were sick?
(a) The medicine man.
(b) A white doctor.
(c) Chato.
(d) An elder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were Ayah, Chato and their family living when the government car pulled up outside their home?

2. How did Chato break his leg?

3. What does the sound of the wind remind the main character of?

4. As a little girl, what did Ayah do with the raw, washed wool?

5. How does Ayah mourn Jimmie?

(see the answer key)

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