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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the medicine man Tayo is sent to wear his hair?
(a) It is shoulder length and wavy
(b) In a single braid down his back
(c) It is cut short like the military
(d) Tied in a chongo knot with red yarn

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

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

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

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

6. What does Josiah tell Tayo is the reason for droughts?
(a) When people forget and misbehave
(b) The sun has changed its position
(c) The wind is too wild
(d) The white man abuses the land

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

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

9. What does Floyd Lee call his miles of barbed wire fencing?
(a) Indian bait
(b) Home moat
(c) Wolf-proof fence
(d) Cattle prod

10. Into what mountains does Tayo, the medicine man, and Shush ride?
(a) Los Padres Mountains
(b) Chuska Mountains
(c) Withalacoochie Mountains
(d) Taylor Mountains

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

12. What does the medicine man say is the reason new ceremonies need to be created?
(a) They cannot find all the elements necessary for the old ceremonies
(b) Things shift and change around them
(c) He does not think the ceremonies need to be changed
(d) White people have ruined the old ceremonies

13. What does Ts’eh serve Tayo for dinner?
(a) Chili
(b) Sweetened yams
(c) Stew
(d) Fried chicken

14. What does Tayo tell Betonie about the Ceremony Betonie has performed?
(a) Tayo says he believes he is cured
(b) Tayo does not talk to Betonie about the Ceremony
(c) Tayo says it did no good
(d) Tayo says he wants to pay Betonie for it

15. 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) A picture of his father
(c) The name and address of his father
(d) A letter from his mother

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tayo eat as he is walking back to Ts’eh’s house?

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

3. Why do the two cowboys chasing Tayo leave not take him back to their boss?

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

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

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