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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ayah unable to find in the bar?
(a) Her children.
(b) The police.
(c) Jimmie.
(d) Chato.

2. Where did Ayah remember finding Chato passed out at over the many years?
(a) In the arroyo.
(b) On the side of store.
(c) On the road.
(d) The bar's wooden steps.

3. When the children visited for the last time, why did Ayah not say goodbye?
(a) Because they didn't understand her.
(b) Because she forgot.
(c) Because they didn't say goodbye to her.
(d) Because she turned away from them.

4. When Danny and Ella came to visit, whom does Ayah remember came with them?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her mother and grandmother.
(c) White women.
(d) Chato's family.

5. In the present, at the beginning of the second section, where is Ayah?
(a) On the mesa.
(b) In the woods.
(c) In Cebolleta.
(d) At home.

6. How did Jimmie actually die?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) Taken hostage and killed.
(c) In a friendly fire.
(d) In a helicopter crash.

7. The last time Ayah met with her children, how did Ella stare at her?
(a) Like the men in the bar do.
(b) With anger.
(c) With love.
(d) With hope.

8. What happened to all of Ayah's other children?
(a) They moved away.
(b) They got the measles.
(c) They stayed at relatives.
(d) They died of tuberculosis.

9. How does warming herself by the fire make Ayah feel?
(a) Fearful.
(b) Nervous.
(c) Loved.
(d) Calm.

10. What affliction does Chato suffer from because of his old age?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) Ulcer.
(c) Brittle bones.
(d) Dementia.

11. Where does Ayah remember her mother using the loom?
(a) Beside her grandmother.
(b) Inside their hogan.
(c) Under the shade of a tamarack tree.
(d) Outside their hogan.

12. What metaphor does Silko use to compare the snowflakes to as they enter the bar?
(a) Flies.
(b) Moths.
(c) Cottonballs.
(d) Memories.

13. Where does the story take place?
(a) In Taos.
(b) In Phoenix.
(c) In New York.
(d) In Navajo Country.

14. How did the blond woman behave while Ayah's children were visiting?
(a) Happy.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Angry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is trapped in Ayah's hair as she moves through the bar?

2. What did Ayah do to try to prevent the Bureau of Indian Affairs from taking her children?

3. Why is Ayah surprised when she reaches the wooden steps of the bar?

4. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?

5. During the last visit with Danny and Ella, what did Danny give to Ayah?

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