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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Emo is banished from the Pueblo, where does he go?
(a) New York
(b) Newfoundland
(c) California
(d) Mississippi

2. What are the two names that all of creation is said to have in modern times?
(a) Indian and white
(b) Old and new
(c) Mundane and ceremonial
(d) Spiritual and material

3. Why does Tayo suddenly tell Rocky he cannot go to the army?
(a) He cannot pretend to be Rocky’s brother
(b) Tayo forgot he had promised Josiah he would always stay to help on the reservation
(c) He is in love with an Indian girl in another village
(d) He cannot produce a birth certificate

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

5. Why does Helen Jean go to the bars and hang out with the Indian men?
(a) She steals from them
(b) She gets them to give her money
(c) She likes hearing war stories
(d) She is an alcoholic

6. Who told Sun Man how to win the clouds back from the Gambler?
(a) Wolf Pack
(b) Spider Woman
(c) Rattlesnake
(d) Crow Man

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

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

9. What does the medicine man do when Tayo wakes and the medicine man sits down with Tayo?
(a) Fills a peace pipe and passes it to Tayo
(b) Rolls a cigarette and smokes
(c) Tayo does not see the medicine man after the Ceremony
(d) Tayo does not sleep after the Ceremony

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

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

12. How does Ts’eh have Tayo’s cattle corralled?
(a) She enticed them with hay
(b) Her cattle dog herded them
(c) They ran into a arroyo with a dead end
(d) She sung them calm then put them in her corral

13. 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) Two cold beers
(c) Two bottles of Garden Deluxe Tokay
(d) A gun

14. What does Emo suggests the men do since they fought a white man’s war and still are stuck on a dried up reservation?
(a) Go to law school and fight the laws
(b) Get their hands on some white women
(c) Kill the white president
(d) Rejoin the army

15. What does Shush, the name of the medicine man’s helper mean in English?
(a) Horse
(b) Bear
(c) Coyote
(d) Fox

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Josiah’s mistress leave the village?

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

4. Who bought the Ford coupe that Tayo’s friends pick him up in to go to the bar?

5. What does Emo say about the white people as he plays with the Japanese teeth?

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