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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the sound of the wind remind the main character of?
(a) A dog.
(b) A lullaby.
(c) The Yeibechei.
(d) A wolf.
2. Whom did the government person talk to about Jimmie's death?
(a) Ayah's mother.
(b) The white rancher.
(c) Chato.
(d) Ayah.
3. As Ayah studies the faces in the bar, whom do they remind her of?
(a) The white people who brought her children back.
(b) The white people who owned the post office.
(c) The white people wh took her children.
(d) The white people who owned the ranch.
4. Who came to Ayah's house to discuss news about Jimmie?
(a) A uniformed man dressed in a khaki uniform.
(b) A medicine man.
(c) Chato.
(d) A Navajo man with a government worker.
5. Why is Chato permitted in the bars?
(a) Because he has a running tab.
(b) Because he speaks Spanish like one of them.
(c) Because he is a regular.
(d) Because he is kind.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who came to tell Ayah that her remaining two children were sick?
2. Where does Ayah go first on her search?
3. What metaphor does the people in the bar's looks compare Ayah to?
4. According to Ayah, what keeps her people connected to the land?
5. What does Ayah remember happening to Jimmie?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the opening paragraph of "Lullaby", Ayah reaches out to touch the falling snow--like her babies do--and this makes her smile. Describe how this analogy to youth ties into the title of the short story.
2. Although Ayah doesn't cry at first, she "hurts inside with anger". What does this mean and how does it fuel her anger toward the white man?
3. What is the purpose of Ayah remembering Jimmie's birth in the opening scene?
4. Ayah signs the papers the white doctors want, feeling proud that she can sign her name in English. Why does this simple act of signing her name cost her so much?
5. What do the scars on Chato's hands symbolize?
6. What does the description of the place where Ayah, Chato and the children live on the white man's ranch reveal about their living conditions?
7. Why is Ayah's hatred of the fact that Chato teaches her to sign her name a part of the theme of the story?
8. What is the importance of the lullaby at the end of the story?
9. Why did Ayah believe Chato is a stranger?
10. Why does Silko make a point of stating that the white doctors came before they hire Navajo women to go with them as interpreters?
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