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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the medicine man say the white doctors do with the dead in the mental hospitals?
(a) Burn them
(b) Keep them in a room and talk to them
(c) Bury them
(d) Dissect them

6. To what tribe do the two Indians belong who get coins from Tayo when he and Robert are on the bridge?
(a) Lagunas
(b) Zunis
(c) Hopis
(d) Navajos

7. How does the Japanese soldier kill Rocky?
(a) Breaking his neck
(b) Stabbing him in the heart
(c) Shooting him
(d) Hitting his head with a rifle butt

8. What does Rocky wish for when he and Tayo throw money off the bridge in San Diego?
(a) That Japan is destroyed with a large tsunami
(b) That his father returns from the war
(c) That Tayo and he return heroes
(d) A safe return

9. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about the Japanese?
(a) They are part of the white sickness
(b) They were related to the Indians 30,000 years ago
(c) He does not mention the Japanese
(d) They are pushed to war by bad spirits

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

11. What does Tayo do when Emo will not leave him alone at the bar?
(a) He calls the police and has them arrest Emo
(b) He hits Harley in the head with a cue stick
(c) He shoves a broken beer bottle into Emo’s stomach
(d) He leaves the bar

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

13. What kind of trees do the people from the villages use for carving?
(a) Oak
(b) Black walnut
(c) Maple
(d) Cottonwood

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

15. What does the army recruiter tell Tayo and Rocky about joining the military?
(a) He does not mention anything about them being Indians
(b) He says there is a special Indian unit
(c) He tells them it will bring money to the reservation
(d) He tells them anyone can fight for America when there is a war

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Josiah tell Tayo the frogs do during a drought?

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

4. What does Tayo say an Indian should avoid in Gallup?

5. What does Emo call Tayo because Emo thinks Tayo believes he is better than the rest of them?

(see the answer keys)

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