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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Auntie keep Josiah very busy?
(a) She does not keep him busy
(b) So he cannot go to Cubero
(c) So he will be too tired to date
(d) So he will not drink alcoholic drinks

2. What does the teacher at the school call the Indian stories about the world?
(a) The teacher at a white school does not know the old stories
(b) Superstition
(c) Interesting fiction
(d) Truth from a different perspective

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

4. Where do the holy men look when they want to know the time to dance for rain?
(a) South
(b) East, then west
(c) North, then east
(d) West and southwest

5. What does Ts’eh tell Tayo where the cattle are located ask him when he first comes to her house?
(a) Who sent him
(b) If he is an alcoholic
(c) If the cattle belong to him
(d) If he is a war veteran

Short Answer Questions

1. Who bought the Ford coupe that Tayo’s friends pick him up in to go to the bar?

2. Why does Tayo suddenly tell Rocky he cannot go to the army?

3. What does the medicine man say the white doctors do with the dead in the mental hospitals?

4. Who does the woman tell Josiah she dances for in the present?

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

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