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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Harley have in his hand when the friends stop to pick up Tayo who is walking on the side of the road?
(a) A gun
(b) Two cold beers
(c) A camera
(d) Two bottles of Garden Deluxe Tokay

2. Who is Descheeny married to when he brings a Mexican girl to his home?
(a) Three sisters
(b) A white woman
(c) A Navajo medicine woman
(d) Twins

3. Where do Harley and Tayo pick up a ride after they leave the spring?
(a) Nowhere, they are riding
(b) Near the edge of the desert barrio
(c) At Harley’s house
(d) On the Acoma Road

4. What has Rocky promised to buy Old Grandma with his army pay?
(a) A new trailer
(b) A television
(c) A kerosene stove
(d) A sombrero

5. Where does Josiah have the cattle unloaded?
(a) Out in the foothills
(b) At the river
(c) Near the forest
(d) Near the windmill

6. What is painted on the war shield that is at Tayo’s house when he returns from finding the cattle?
(a) A Navajo war chief
(b) A cave with a spring in it
(c) A horse
(d) A night sky with stars

7. 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

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

9. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about who the medicine man’s grandmother was?
(a) She was a Navajo
(b) She was white
(c) She was a Mexican with green eyes
(d) He did not know his grandmother

10. What is Emo drinking at the bar?
(a) Wine
(b) Whiskey
(c) Beer
(d) Vodka

11. What does Auntie tell Tayo and Old Grandma is the way that Pinkie dies?
(a) Pinkie does not get killed
(b) Emo shoots him in the back of the head
(c) He is hit by a car
(d) Leroy stabbed him in the heart

12. To whom does Tayo talk almost incessantly?
(a) The sergeant
(b) His brother
(c) The cook
(d) The corporal

13. Where does Ulibarri live?
(a) Magdalena
(b) San Angelo
(c) Las Cruce
(d) El Paso

14. How does Harley get a mirror outside the Y bar?
(a) He does not get a mirror
(b) He breaks the one off the truck
(c) He finds one in the truck bed
(d) He gets it when the woman who is with them purse breaks open

15. Where is Thought-Woman sitting in the opening poem?
(a) Under a tree
(b) In her room
(c) On top of a mountain
(d) In a creek bed

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the holy men look when they want to know the time to dance for rain?

2. What does Josiah’s mistress say frightens most people?

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

4. What happens to the willows in the arroyo?

5. What does Robert tell Tayo the elders have said when Tayo tells Robert he is ready to help?

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