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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about the Japanese?
(a) They are part of the white sickness
(b) He does not mention the Japanese
(c) They are pushed to war by bad spirits
(d) They were related to the Indians 30,000 years ago

2. Who does the woman tell Josiah she dances for in the present?
(a) Her customers
(b) Her grandchildren
(c) Her husband
(d) No one but him

3. Why does Helen Jean go to the bars and hang out with the Indian men?
(a) She is an alcoholic
(b) She steals from them
(c) She likes hearing war stories
(d) She gets them to give her money

4. What is playing on the juke box at the Y bar when Tayo and the others enter the bar?
(a) A Mexican polka
(b) A cowboy country western
(c) A World War II military song
(d) A love ballad

5. How does the medicine man Tayo is sent to wear his hair?
(a) In a single braid down his back
(b) Tied in a chongo knot with red yarn
(c) It is shoulder length and wavy
(d) It is cut short like the military

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Tayo's father from?

2. What is Emo drinking at the bar?

3. Who does Tayo keep thinking he sees as being dead?

4. What does Betonie draw in the sand that he tells Tayo to remember?

5. When does Lalo retire and close his bar?

(see the answer key)

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