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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Emo is banished from the Pueblo, where does he go?
(a) New York
(b) Newfoundland
(c) Mississippi
(d) California

3. 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) Nothing, they are not involved
(c) They arrest the woman
(d) They take everyone in the arroyo away and tear down the shelters

4. What fear does Tayo hear in Auntie’s voice when Tayo is a boy?
(a) Fear of losing Tayo
(b) Fear of Josiah
(c) Fear of being trapped in the oldest ways
(d) Fear of Rocky liking Tayo

5. What does Tayo say when Leroy offers him a drink while in the truck?
(a) He would like a beer
(b) His stomach is too sick for drinking
(c) He is attending AA
(d) He does not like the brand of wine

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

7. What does Tayo feel about the medicine man’s possessions?
(a) They are too disorganized
(b) There are too few of them
(c) They are holy
(d) They are cast-offs of the white people

8. What does Tayo say no one is allowed to do to an invisible one?
(a) Walk with one
(b) Take a picture
(c) Talk to them
(d) Feed them

9. What does Harley say he traded for the truck he is driving?
(a) His army medals and fifty dollars
(b) His grandfather’s ceremonial dress
(c) The land that was stolen from the Indians
(d) Nothing, he does not mention a trade

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

11. What does Tayo dream about the night he sleeps with Ts’eh?
(a) His mother
(b) The woman
(c) Rocky
(d) The cattle

12. Where do the holy men look when they want to know the time to dance for rain?
(a) East, then west
(b) North, then east
(c) South
(d) West and southwest

13. What happens to Harley when he left the sheep he was watching and left his horse tied by the road?
(a) He was mugged and wounded badly
(b) He ended up in the jail at Los Lunas
(c) He met a white woman who took him to Las Vegas
(d) He was recruited by a cattle rancher to work branding week

14. In which direction do the cows always run?
(a) East
(b) South
(c) North
(d) West

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Josiah’s mistress leave the village?

3. Where does Old Grandma sit during the day most of the time?

4. What is Josiah doing when he dies?

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

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