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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tayo do when Emo keeps talking about killing Japanese?
(a) He knifes Emo in the arm
(b) He jumps up and calls Emo a killer
(c) He leaves the bar
(d) He smashes a beer bottle over Emo’s head

2. Where do Josiah and Tayo fill up their water barrels?
(a) At the government office
(b) At the village well
(c) At the spring in the sandstone cave
(d) In the river

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

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

5. What does Emo say about the white people as he plays with the Japanese teeth?
(a) They are not as fierce as the Japanese
(b) They have too much and the Indians should go and take it from them
(c) They should have been able to beat the Japanese in one year
(d) It would take five white soldiers to equal one Indian soldier

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

7. What is the name of the medicine man that Ku'oosh wants Tayo to see?
(a) Red Sun
(b) Betonie
(c) Victor
(d) Passh’ha

8. Where do Harley and Tayo pick up a ride after they leave the spring?
(a) At Harley’s house
(b) Nowhere, they are riding
(c) Near the edge of the desert barrio
(d) On the Acoma Road

9. What does the teacher at the school call the Indian stories about the world?
(a) Interesting fiction
(b) Superstition
(c) Truth from a different perspective
(d) The teacher at a white school does not know the old stories

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

11. What does Josiah’s mistress say frightens most people?
(a) Dying of thirst in the desert
(b) Death
(c) Losing one’s identity
(d) Change

12. Why does Josiah send Tayo with a note to Josiah’s mistress?
(a) Josiah does not want to face his mistress again
(b) Tayo is going into Cubero anyway
(c) It is raining and he will be too busy
(d) Josiah cannot get away from Auntie

13. Where does Old Grandma sit during the day most of the time?
(a) Under the Elm tree
(b) By the stove
(c) In her bedroom
(d) At the river

14. Why does Auntie always watch Tayo more closely than Rocky when they were growing up?
(a) Rocky was innately good
(b) Tayo always need more attention
(c) Tayo had a more promising future
(d) Rocky was her own son and she had to raise him

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Robert tell Tayo the elders have said when Tayo tells Robert he is ready to help?

2. What does Rocky tell Josiah about the cattle books Josiah decides to abandon?

3. What does Auntie take from Tayo when he is a small boy and will not return to him?

4. What animal does Tayo see as he is laying in the pine needles where he fell while looking for the cattle inside the fence?

5. What does Harley say riding in the truck at top speed is better than?

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