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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is carved on Ts’eh’s silver buckles on her moccasins?
(a) Rainbirds
(b) Cacti
(c) Cougars
(d) Feathers

2. What does Josiah tell Tayo the frogs do during a drought?
(a) Migrate into the forests
(b) Bury in the sand at the bottom of a dry pool
(c) Die out
(d) Move into the caves

3. What does the medicine man say white people are to witchery?
(a) Tools to be used
(b) Nothing, witchery does not affect white people
(c) Blackness against the light
(d) No different than Indians

4. When Tayo and the medicine man leave his home, what is the medicine man riding?
(a) A palomino
(b) A burro
(c) An old pinto horse
(d) A mule

5. What fear does Tayo hear in Auntie’s voice when Tayo is a boy?
(a) Fear of Rocky liking Tayo
(b) Fear of losing Tayo
(c) Fear of Josiah
(d) Fear of being trapped in the oldest ways

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Tayo talk almost incessantly?

2. What is the north side of Gallup called?

3. Why does Helen Jean go to the bars and hang out with the Indian men?

4. What is the name of Auntie’s old dog who always ran after female dogs in heat?

5. In which direction do the cows always run?

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