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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was wrong with the wool blankets the army gave the Indians in the 1800’s?
(a) They were all green
(b) They were moth eaten
(c) They were infected with smallpox
(d) They were more cotton than wool

2. What does Josiah ride when he is cutting cattle out on a deal with Ulibarri?
(a) A bay stallion
(b) A palomino horse
(c) A mule
(d) A burro

3. Where do the holy men look when they want to know the time to dance for rain?
(a) East, then west
(b) West and southwest
(c) North, then east
(d) South

4. What does Emo say about the white people as he plays with the Japanese teeth?
(a) It would take five white soldiers to equal one Indian soldier
(b) They should have been able to beat the Japanese in one year
(c) They have too much and the Indians should go and take it from them
(d) They are not as fierce as the Japanese

5. Why are some of the cattles’ necks scraped?
(a) They ran into the walls of the arroyo
(b) They kept trying to get past the barbed wire
(c) Their necks are not messed up
(d) The white people use them for Texas roping

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the medicine man do when Tayo wakes and the medicine man sits down with Tayo?

2. In one of the poems, who is Reed Woman's sister?

3. What kind of victims is Descheeny known to be able to help?

4. What fear does Tayo hear in Auntie’s voice when Tayo is a boy?

5. What does the medicine man say the white doctors do with the dead in the mental hospitals?

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