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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to the willows in the arroyo?
(a) They are burned up when a streak of lightning hits them
(b) Nothing
(c) A flash flood up roots them
(d) Drunk men chopped them down

3. Where do Josiah and Tayo fill up their water barrels?
(a) At the spring in the sandstone cave
(b) At the village well
(c) At the government office
(d) In the river

4. What does Tayo say when Leroy offers him a drink while in the truck?
(a) He would like a beer
(b) His stomach is too sick for drinking
(c) He does not like the brand of wine
(d) He is attending AA

5. What does Betonie draw in the sand that he tells Tayo to remember?
(a) The pattern of some stars
(b) How to twine vines for the next Ceremony
(c) A type of herb for nausea
(d) A map

Short Answer Questions

1. To what tribe do the two Indians belong who get coins from Tayo when he and Robert are on the bridge?

2. From where is the bartender who waits on Tayo and his friends?

3. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about who the medicine man’s grandmother was?

4. What is the police’s response to the woman with the reddish hair’s behavior?

5. According to the poem "Ceremony" at the beginning of the book, what tries to destroy the stories?

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