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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Tayo's mother live?
(a) In an apartment in Gallup
(b) In a house in Santa Fe
(c) In a trailer on the Sioux reservation
(d) She is homeless

2. What is unusual about the pine tree where Tayo makes a hole in the fence where his cattle are located?
(a) It has grown into one tree with an oak
(b) It has been split by lightning
(c) It is bent over so that it top almost touches the ground
(d) It has three trunks

3. What kind of victims is Descheeny known to be able to help?
(a) Drug addicts
(b) Women who have been abused by men
(c) Men returning from war
(d) People tainted by Christianity or liquor

4. From where is the bartender who waits on Tayo and his friends?
(a) Gallup
(b) New Orleans
(c) Cubero
(d) Albuquerque

5. How did the medicine man get to Chicago in 1903?
(a) He walked
(b) He rode a horse
(c) By train
(d) On a bus

6. Out of what did the old male Indians whittle toothpicks?
(a) Pinon twigs
(b) Tumbleweed
(c) Hickory branches
(d) Cacti thorns

7. In what three colors does the medicine man paint paw prints next to bear footprints?
(a) Purple, black and white
(b) Brown, green and blue
(c) Blue, yellow, and white
(d) Red, yellow, and black

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

9. What fell out of the tree when the Indians were on a raid that told them someone was in the tree?
(a) A sombrero
(b) A pair of boots
(c) Some apples
(d) A blue shawl

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

11. What is painted on the war shield that is at Tayo’s house when he returns from finding the cattle?
(a) A cave with a spring in it
(b) A night sky with stars
(c) A horse
(d) A Navajo war chief

12. How is Tayo able to anticipate Auntie’s mood?
(a) By how high her voice is when she speaks
(b) By what she cooks
(c) By what television show she has on
(d) By watching her face

13. What does Betonie draw in the sand that he tells Tayo to remember?
(a) A type of herb for nausea
(b) A map
(c) How to twine vines for the next Ceremony
(d) The pattern of some stars

14. What is Emo drinking at the bar?
(a) Whiskey
(b) Wine
(c) Beer
(d) Vodka

15. What is playing on the juke box at the Y bar when Tayo and the others enter the bar?
(a) A cowboy country western
(b) A Mexican polka
(c) A World War II military song
(d) A love ballad

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Josiah and Tayo fill up their water barrels?

2. How do the living animals feel about witches?

3. What does Ku’oosh smell like?

4. How does Harley get to a bar once when he had been sent to the far reaches of the reservation?

5. What was wrong with the wool blankets the army gave the Indians in the 1800’s?

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