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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does medicine man say deeds and titles mean nothing to Mount Taylor?
(a) The Indians belong to the mountain
(b) The mountain cannot read
(c) The mountain will kill the white people and bury their deeds and titles
(d) The white people will all die out and the mountain will still stand

2. What does Tayo decide to do with the note when the door is not answered?
(a) Tack it to the door frame
(b) Leave it in the bar
(c) Slide it under her door
(d) Tape it to the window

3. What animal does Tayo see as he is laying in the pine needles where he fell while looking for the cattle inside the fence?
(a) Deer
(b) Mountain lion
(c) Coyote
(d) Wolf

4. How did white people come to be, according to the medicine man?
(a) The Great Spirit created them to teach Indians courage
(b) A white god from another universe placed them on the earth
(c) They were all born at the same time but took different paths through evolution
(d) They were created by Indian witchery

5. What does the medicine man tell Tayo is the reason Tayo is having a difficult time getting well?
(a) Tayo must forgive himself first
(b) Tayo does not want to get well
(c) Tayo does not believe he is sick
(d) Forces are trying to keep Tayo from completing the Ceremony

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tayo feel about the medicine man’s possessions?

2. Why does Helen Jean go to the bars and hang out with the Indian men?

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

4. What do the old singers send to Descheeny?

5. Where does Josiah have the cattle unloaded?

(see the answer key)

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