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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Tayo's father from?
(a) Santa Fe
(b) Tasco
(c) Lubbuck
(d) Gallup

2. What happens to Harley when he left the sheep he was watching and left his horse tied by the road?
(a) He was recruited by a cattle rancher to work branding week
(b) He met a white woman who took him to Las Vegas
(c) He ended up in the jail at Los Lunas
(d) He was mugged and wounded badly

3. What did the children call Tayo’s eyes when he was growing up?
(a) Bedroom eyes
(b) White man’s eyes
(c) Wimp eyes
(d) Mexican eyes

4. According to the poem "Ceremony" at the beginning of the book, what tries to destroy the stories?
(a) Humans
(b) Assumptions
(c) Lies
(d) Evil

5. Why does Josiah not brand the cows when he first gets them?
(a) They are too young
(b) He has no brand
(c) He wants to fatten them up first
(d) He has the Mexican brand on his bill of sale

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tayo keep thinking he sees as being dead?

2. What did all the Navajos do in the white school when the teacher brought out a tub of dead frogs to dissect?

3. What does the medicine man say is the reason new ceremonies need to be created?

4. What do Tayo, Leroy and Emo earn in the war?

5. What does Floyd Lee call his miles of barbed wire fencing?

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