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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Tayo suddenly tell Rocky he cannot go to the army?
(a) He cannot produce a birth certificate
(b) Tayo forgot he had promised Josiah he would always stay to help on the reservation
(c) He is in love with an Indian girl in another village
(d) He cannot pretend to be Rocky’s brother

2. Who is Descheeny married to when he brings a Mexican girl to his home?
(a) A white woman
(b) A Navajo medicine woman
(c) Three sisters
(d) Twins

3. What kind of hat does Descheeny wear?
(a) Coon skin hat
(b) Baseball cap
(c) Badger fur hat
(d) Leather cowboy hat

4. What is behind the bar at Cerritos?
(a) A field of corn
(b) A garage
(c) A large pond
(d) A barrel cactus that is fifteen feet tall

5. What does Tayo feel about the medicine man’s possessions?
(a) They are too disorganized
(b) There are too few of them
(c) They are holy
(d) They are cast-offs of the white people

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tayo find out about cigarette butts when he is a toddler?

2. To whom does Tayo talk almost incessantly?

3. Where does Helen Jean live before she moves to Gallup?

4. Why was Betonie’s grandmother thrown out of her village when she was born?

5. How does Ts’eh match up plants and stones when she is sorting them on her table?

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