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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the sergeant from Isleta get a bronze star in the war?
(a) For saving the company commander
(b) For blowing up a Japanese torpedo boat
(c) For infiltrating enemy lines and killing a Japanese general
(d) For destroying a bunker full of Japanese

2. What does Josiah tell Tayo is the reason for droughts?
(a) When people forget and misbehave
(b) The wind is too wild
(c) The sun has changed its position
(d) The white man abuses the land

3. What is painted on the war shield that is at Tayo’s house when he returns from finding the cattle?
(a) A cave with a spring in it
(b) A night sky with stars
(c) A horse
(d) A Navajo war chief

4. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about who the medicine man’s grandmother was?
(a) He did not know his grandmother
(b) She was a Mexican with green eyes
(c) She was white
(d) She was a Navajo

5. Why does the Helen Jean leave the bar?
(a) Her brother came to get her
(b) She is interested in a Mexican man there
(c) She has to go meet her sister
(d) She does not like the atmosphere

Short Answer Questions

1. What was wrong with the wool blankets the army gave the Indians in the 1800’s?

2. What happens to the willows in the arroyo?

3. What does Tayo say one has to know in order to get to the moon?

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

5. What does Emo say about the white people as he plays with the Japanese teeth?

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