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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tayo watching from the cab of the truck as he is riding with Leroy and Harley?
(a) The billboards
(b) Grasshoppers
(c) The telephone poles
(d) The woman in the truck

2. What does Ku’oosh smell like?
(a) Mutton tallow and sagebrush
(b) Vanilla
(c) Lavender
(d) Mountain laurel and campfire smoke

3. With what creature is Thought-Woman associated?
(a) Butterfly
(b) Wolf
(c) Coyote
(d) Spider

4. What does the medicine man say is the reason new ceremonies need to be created?
(a) He does not think the ceremonies need to be changed
(b) Things shift and change around them
(c) White people have ruined the old ceremonies
(d) They cannot find all the elements necessary for the old ceremonies

5. With what does the medicine man cut Tayo’s head?
(a) His pocketknife
(b) His hunting knife
(c) A piece of flint
(d) A broken bottle

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

7. Who does Tayo keep thinking he sees as being dead?
(a) Josiah
(b) Rocky
(c) A yellow-stripped cat
(d) His mother

8. Where did the medicine man see Geronimo on display?
(a) Albuquerque
(b) St. Louis
(c) Santa Fe
(d) Tulsa

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

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

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

12. What is Josiah doing when he dies?
(a) He is cleaning out the barn
(b) He is searching for the cattle
(c) He is with his mistress
(d) He is working on the roof of the house

13. What does Ku'oosh tell Tayo about the world?
(a) It is a fragile place
(b) It is strong and consistent
(c) It is a frightening place
(d) It belongs to the Indians

14. Why does Auntie always watch Tayo more closely than Rocky when they were growing up?
(a) Tayo had a more promising future
(b) Rocky was her own son and she had to raise him
(c) Tayo always need more attention
(d) Rocky was innately good

15. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about what witchery does?
(a) It only manipulates a small portion of reality
(b) It is responsible for everything that happens
(c) Witchery does not discriminate between white man and Indian
(d) It does not exist

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the medicine man’s residence called?

2. From where is the bartender who waits on Tayo and his friends?

3. Where do Harley and Tayo pick up a ride after they leave the spring?

4. What does Tayo decide to do with the note when the door is not answered?

5. What do Robert and Tayo take to Pinkie out at the sheep camp?

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