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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the wet wool smell of her blanket remind Ayah of?
(a) Newborn goats.
(b) Sheep.
(c) Life.
(d) Jimmie.

2. What war did Jimmie leave to go fight?
(a) World War II.
(b) Vietnam War.
(c) World War I.
(d) Korean War.

3. What did Ayah do to try to prevent the Bureau of Indian Affairs from taking her children?
(a) She cursed them.
(b) She fought them.
(c) She hid them and herself in the hills.
(d) She shot at them with a gun.

4. What point of view is the story told from?
(a) Third person limited.
(b) First person.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person ominiscent.

5. Why is the Spanish polka music the only sounds in the bar?
(a) The bartender orders everyone to silence.
(b) The bar is empty.
(c) Everyone is dancing.
(d) Everyone is silent, watching Ayah.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the present, at the beginning of the second section, where is Ayah?

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

3. Where does Ayah remember her mother taking her after the birth of her oldest son?

4. Ayah remembers doing what to her mother when she knows it is time to give birth to Jimmie?

5. As Ayah sits in the snow, what does she think about her shoes?

(see the answer key)

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