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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What was the blond girl on the calendar in the store holding in her hand?
(a) A bottle of Coca Cola
(b) Two white doves
(c) A Mars bar
(d) A guitar

3. How do the living animals feel about witches?
(a) They cannot recognize them
(b) They love them
(c) They are curious about them
(d) They are terrified of them

4. Why was Betonie’s grandmother thrown out of her village when she was born?
(a) She has hazel eyes
(b) Her mother has no pain when she is born
(c) She is born with a caul
(d) She is born on a double full moon

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

6. With what creature is Thought-Woman associated?
(a) Wolf
(b) Butterfly
(c) Coyote
(d) Spider

7. What is Josiah doing when he dies?
(a) He is searching for the cattle
(b) He is with his mistress
(c) He is cleaning out the barn
(d) He is working on the roof of the house

8. 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) Kill the white president
(b) Go to law school and fight the laws
(c) Get their hands on some white women
(d) Rejoin the army

9. 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

10. What kind of job does Helen Jean get in Gallup?
(a) Waitress
(b) Theater janitor
(c) Cook
(d) Secretary

11. What is the worst thing for Tayo when in the war?
(a) The lack of privacy
(b) The rain
(c) The sound of artillery exploding
(d) The sound of crickets

12. Who does Tayo keep thinking he sees as being dead?
(a) His mother
(b) A yellow-stripped cat
(c) Josiah
(d) Rocky

13. What does the medicine man say white people are to witchery?
(a) Blackness against the light
(b) Nothing, witchery does not affect white people
(c) Tools to be used
(d) No different than Indians

14. Why does Auntie keep Josiah very busy?
(a) So he cannot go to Cubero
(b) She does not keep him busy
(c) So he will not drink alcoholic drinks
(d) So he will be too tired to date

15. What does Old Grandma tell Auntie Tayo needs?
(a) A medicine man
(b) To return to the war
(c) To get into a good fight
(d) A sweat lodge

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Harley when he left the sheep he was watching and left his horse tied by the road?

2. What does Harley have in his hand when the friends stop to pick up Tayo who is walking on the side of the road?

3. To what tribe do the two Indians belong who get coins from Tayo when he and Robert are on the bridge?

4. What is the north side of Gallup called?

5. What does Tayo decide to do with the note when the door is not answered?

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