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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "she" say is the only cure in the four-line poem, "What She Said"?
(a) Sleep
(b) Love
(c) A good Ceremony
(d) Hope

2. How does the Japanese soldier kill Rocky?
(a) Stabbing him in the heart
(b) Shooting him
(c) Hitting his head with a rifle butt
(d) Breaking his neck

3. What does Tayo eat as he is walking back to Ts’eh’s house?
(a) Pinon nuts
(b) Beef jerky
(c) Nothing
(d) Gum drops

4. 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) Wolf
(b) Coyote
(c) Mountain lion
(d) Deer

5. Why does Josiah’s mistress leave the village?
(a) She dies
(b) She gets married
(c) Josiah dies
(d) She goes home to care for her elderly mother

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Josiah send Tayo with a note to Josiah’s mistress?

2. Where is Tayo's father from?

3. Out of what did the old male Indians whittle toothpicks?

4. How did white people come to be, according to the medicine man?

5. Where is Thought-Woman sitting in the opening poem?

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