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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tayo tell Ku'oosh about Tayo’s experience in the war?
(a) He killed too many innocent people
(b) He refuses to talk about the war at all
(c) He never killed one enemy
(d) He watched his best friend die

2. What is the police’s response to the woman with the reddish hair’s behavior?
(a) They arrest the woman
(b) Nothing, they are not involved
(c) They take everyone in the arroyo away and tear down the shelters
(d) They arrest the white men who are harassing the women

3. How does Harley get to a bar once when he had been sent to the far reaches of the reservation?
(a) Hotwired a tractor and took it
(b) Hitchhiked
(c) Rode a unicycle he found in the dump
(d) Road a cow

4. What do the children in north Gallup learn to do before they learn to walk?
(a) Sing as they beg
(b) Find treasures in the garbage
(c) Hide out from the truant officers
(d) Avoid fists and feet

5. 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 night sky with stars
(d) A horse

6. Why does Josiah not brand the cows when he first gets them?
(a) He has no brand
(b) He wants to fatten them up first
(c) He has the Mexican brand on his bill of sale
(d) They are too young

7. Where does Tayo sleep the night when the cowboys let him go?
(a) Near the pine tree where he cut the fence
(b) In a cave
(c) Next to the body of his horse
(d) In a shallow depression covered with leaves

8. What happens to Harley when he left the sheep he was watching and left his horse tied by the road?
(a) He was mugged and wounded badly
(b) He met a white woman who took him to Las Vegas
(c) He was recruited by a cattle rancher to work branding week
(d) He ended up in the jail at Los Lunas

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

10. What is the name of the fort that the medicine man’s grandfather did not want to have trouble with?
(a) Ft. Braden
(b) Ft. Huachuca
(c) Ft. San Mateo
(d) Ft. Sumter

11. What does Tayo do with the heart and liver of the deer?
(a) He leaves them for the wolves
(b) He wraps them in cheesecloth
(c) He puts them into a cooler
(d) They eat it raw right out of the body

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

13. What does Tayo do when he goes into the corn field one night?
(a) Smashes the melons growing there
(b) Lays down to watch the corn above him
(c) Draws a crop circle
(d) Strips the corn from the plants

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helen Jean do for a living in her hometown before she moves to Gallup?

2. What does Shush, the name of the medicine man’s helper mean in English?

3. What does Tayo find out about cigarette butts when he is a toddler?

4. What is the tribe of the woman who is in the truck with Harley and Leroy when they stop and pick up Tayo?

5. What does Tayo say an Indian should avoid in Gallup?

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