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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the medicine man tell Tayo is the reason Tayo is having a difficult time getting well?
(a) Tayo does not believe he is sick
(b) Tayo must forgive himself first
(c) Tayo does not want to get well
(d) Forces are trying to keep Tayo from completing the Ceremony

3. Where do Josiah and Tayo fill up their water barrels?
(a) At the government office
(b) At the village well
(c) At the spring in the sandstone cave
(d) In the river

4. What does Auntie take from Tayo when he is a small boy and will not return to him?
(a) The name and address of his father
(b) A letter from his mother
(c) A picture of his father
(d) A picture of his mother

5. How does Ts’eh match up plants and stones when she is sorting them on her table?
(a) By color
(b) By size
(c) By patterns
(d) By texture

6. What does the medicine man say the white doctors do with the dead in the mental hospitals?
(a) Bury them
(b) Dissect them
(c) Burn them
(d) Keep them in a room and talk to them

7. What does the old Mexican man bring Tayo when Tayo is at the café?
(a) A bowl of menudo
(b) Fried chicken
(c) Salsa and chips
(d) A tostada

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

9. What happens to the willows in the arroyo?
(a) They are burned up when a streak of lightning hits them
(b) Drunk men chopped them down
(c) A flash flood up roots them
(d) Nothing

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

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

12. What does Josiah tell Tayo is the reason for droughts?
(a) The sun has changed its position
(b) When people forget and misbehave
(c) The wind is too wild
(d) The white man abuses the land

13. What kind of fur vest is the hunter who Tayo meets walking wear?
(a) Beaver
(b) Deer
(c) Rabbit
(d) Mountain lion

14. 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 camera
(b) A gun
(c) Two cold beers
(d) Two bottles of Garden Deluxe Tokay

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the medicine man say white people are to witchery?

3. What kind of trees do the people from the villages use for carving?

4. What does Tayo do when he goes into the corn field one night?

5. What does Emo call Tayo because Emo thinks Tayo believes he is better than the rest of them?

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