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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Ayah learned the rhythm of her pains while in labor with Jimmie, what did she smell outside the stone hogan?
(a) Frybread.
(b) Bee flowers blooming and willows.
(c) Dew.
(d) Smoke.

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

3. How did Ayah punish Chato for teaching her English and failing to keep her kids from being taken away?
(a) She distanced herself from him.
(b) She cursed him.
(c) She slapped him.
(d) She moved out.

4. Ayah remembers that when Ella came to visit, she used to____.
(a) Sit down by the fire.
(b) Hide behind the white man.
(c) Hide behind the white woman.
(d) Nuzzle close to her like she does when she is a baby.

5. According to Ayah, what keeps her people connected to the land?
(a) Weaving.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Farming.

6. Ayah remembers that Danny used to do what?
(a) Run off.
(b) Sit down by the fire.
(c) Hide behind the white man.
(d) Hide behind the white woman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What are the sounds Ayah hears at the beginning of section two?
(a) Silence.
(b) People arguing.
(c) Chato's cries.
(d) Dogs barking.

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

15. At the opening of the second section, who is Ayah searching for?
(a) Chato.
(b) Ella.
(c) Jimmie.
(d) Danny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who allowed the children to be taken by the B.I.A.?

2. What point of view is the story told from?

3. What languages does Chato speak?

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

5. Ayah remembers what types of items in the black pot that are used for dying wool?

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