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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tayo feel about the medicine man’s possessions?
(a) They are holy
(b) They are cast-offs of the white people
(c) There are too few of them
(d) They are too disorganized

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

3. Why did the sergeant from Isleta get a bronze star in the war?
(a) For blowing up a Japanese torpedo boat
(b) For saving the company commander
(c) For destroying a bunker full of Japanese
(d) For infiltrating enemy lines and killing a Japanese general

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

5. Why does medicine man say deeds and titles mean nothing to Mount Taylor?
(a) The mountain will kill the white people and bury their deeds and titles
(b) The mountain cannot read
(c) The white people will all die out and the mountain will still stand
(d) The Indians belong to the mountain

6. What is behind the bar at Cerritos?
(a) A barrel cactus that is fifteen feet tall
(b) A garage
(c) A large pond
(d) A field of corn

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

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

9. 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 does not want to get well
(c) Forces are trying to keep Tayo from completing the Ceremony
(d) Tayo must forgive himself first

10. What happens to Rocky and Tayo the first day they are in Oakland?
(a) An old woman stops her car and asks God to bless them
(b) They meet up with blond twins and go home with them
(c) They are given extra duty for arriving late back to the barracks
(d) They are arrested for being Indians in a white bar

11. Where did the medicine man see Geronimo on display?
(a) Albuquerque
(b) Santa Fe
(c) Tulsa
(d) St. Louis

12. Why does the Helen Jean leave the bar?
(a) She has to go meet her sister
(b) She is interested in a Mexican man there
(c) Her brother came to get her
(d) She does not like the atmosphere

13. What is the name of Auntie’s old dog who always ran after female dogs in heat?
(a) Lightning
(b) Laddie
(c) Pepper
(d) Tanker

14. Why is Tayo happy it starts snowing the morning after his encounter with the fence patrol?
(a) It will bring water to the land
(b) He will be able to bury himself in the snow to sleep that night
(c) He likes it when the land looks new with snow on it
(d) It will mean they will not be able to track him

15. Where did the medicine man first go to school?
(a) Salt Lake City
(b) Gallup
(c) Tahoe
(d) Riverside, Ca

Short Answer Questions

1. In what three colors does the medicine man paint paw prints next to bear footprints?

2. What does the medicine man say the white doctors do with the dead in the mental hospitals?

3. What was the woman Josiah visits called when she was a dancer?

4. What does Tayo say when Leroy offers him a drink while in the truck?

5. What kind of job does Helen Jean get in Gallup?

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