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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Josiah and Robert do to the deer while Rocky is gutting it?
(a) Skin it
(b) Nothing
(c) Sprinkle cornmeal in its nose
(d) Cut off its head

2. What does Tayo do when Emo keeps talking about killing Japanese?
(a) He jumps up and calls Emo a killer
(b) He smashes a beer bottle over Emo’s head
(c) He leaves the bar
(d) He knifes Emo in the arm

3. What does Tayo say one has to know in order to get to the moon?
(a) How many ways there are of arriving there
(b) If one really wants to get there
(c) How to speak the man in the moon's language
(d) The directions there

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

5. Why does Tayo shake the branches on the tree outside Ts’eh’s house?
(a) To make a pattern for divination
(b) To watch the snow fall
(c) To get the snow off so the branches do not break
(d) To get the blanket off a branch

6. What does Ku'oosh place on Tayo’s stomach before he leaves?
(a) A bag of tobacco
(b) Two ears of corn
(c) A bundle of tea leaves
(d) A rattlesnake skin

7. What does Harley say riding in the truck at top speed is better than?
(a) Warm apple pie with vanilla ice cream
(b) Carnival rides at the Laguna festival
(c) Taking the roller coaster in Atlantic City
(d) A six pack of cold beer

8. Where does Helen Jean live before she moves to Gallup?
(a) Tako
(b) Okwahee
(c) Mexico
(d) Towac

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

10. 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 night sky with stars
(c) A horse
(d) A cave with a spring in it

11. What color of sheets are on the bed at Josiah’s mistress’s home?
(a) White
(b) Tan
(c) Red
(d) Blue

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

13. 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

14. 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) He did not know his grandmother
(d) She was a Mexican with green eyes

15. Where do the holy men look when they want to know the time to dance for rain?
(a) South
(b) East, then west
(c) North, then east
(d) West and southwest

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Tayo happy it starts snowing the morning after his encounter with the fence patrol?

2. Who bootlegs beer to the Indians?

3. What does the medicine man tell Tayo is the reason Tayo is having a difficult time getting well?

4. What type of tool does Tayo carry with him when he is looking for the cattle?

5. What does Ku'oosh tell Tayo about the world?

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