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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helen Jean do for a living in her hometown before she moves to Gallup?
(a) Cook for a missionary
(b) Hotel maid
(c) Waitress
(d) Bartender

2. What was the woman Josiah visits called when she was a dancer?
(a) Black Beauty
(b) Spin Legs
(c) Lady Wind
(d) Black Swan

3. According to the poem "Ceremony" at the beginning of the book, what tries to destroy the stories?
(a) Assumptions
(b) Humans
(c) Lies
(d) Evil

4. What does Tayo say no one is allowed to do to an invisible one?
(a) Talk to them
(b) Take a picture
(c) Feed them
(d) Walk with one

5. What are the two names that all of creation is said to have in modern times?
(a) Mundane and ceremonial
(b) Old and new
(c) Indian and white
(d) Spiritual and material

6. What is the medicine man’s residence called?
(a) A teepee
(b) A hogan
(c) A larga
(d) He lives in a cave

7. What animal went to the mother of the people during a drought and asked forgiveness for the people?
(a) A greenbottle fly
(b) A road runner
(c) A coyote
(d) A dragonfly

8. What is the name of the Apache sheepherder Auntie has?
(a) White Cloud
(b) Daniel
(c) Mike
(d) Geronimo

9. What is unusual about the pine tree where Tayo makes a hole in the fence where his cattle are located?
(a) It has been split by lightning
(b) It has three trunks
(c) It has grown into one tree with an oak
(d) It is bent over so that it top almost touches the ground

10. In which direction do the cows always run?
(a) East
(b) North
(c) South
(d) West

11. What do Tayo, Leroy and Emo earn in the war?
(a) Commendation medals
(b) General discharges
(c) Purple hearts
(d) Silver stars

12. What is the main thing wrong with white people, according to the creation legend?
(a) They do not know what happened to their souls
(b) They cannot feel the path of light because their aura is too dense
(c) Their souls separate from their bodies when they are born
(d) They see only objects and not living creatures or living earth

13. How old is Tayo when his mother leaves him?
(a) Four
(b) Six
(c) Two
(d) Five

14. In May where does Tayo tell his family he is going to go?
(a) To California
(b) To Gallup
(c) To the spring cave
(d) To the ranch

15. What does Robert tell Tayo the elders have said when Tayo tells Robert he is ready to help?
(a) The elders do not discuss Tayo with Robert
(b) That Tayo is going to be elected to the council
(c) That Tayo needs to get help
(d) That Tayo must move off the reservation

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Old Grandma tell Auntie Tayo needs?

3. Where does Tayo want to go when he wakes up crying and dreaming about Josiah?

4. Under what kind of trees at the Y bar does Leroy park?

5. What does the medicine man say about living so close to Gallup?

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