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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what is Reed Woman scolded by her sister?
(a) Sleeping all day
(b) Singing during the sacred
(c) Bathing all day
(d) Dancing all night

2. What does the Irishman call out to Emo when the Irishman knocks on Emo’s door when Emo is with a redhead woman?
(a) Cross-breed
(b) Stinkin Indin
(c) Custer
(d) Geronimo

3. 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) Blue, yellow, and white
(d) Red, yellow, and black

4. How does Harley get a mirror outside the Y bar?
(a) He gets it when the woman who is with them purse breaks open
(b) He finds one in the truck bed
(c) He breaks the one off the truck
(d) He does not get a mirror

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

6. What kind and what color of truck does Josiah drive?
(a) A blue GMC
(b) A white El Camino
(c) A red Ford
(d) A black Chevy

7. Where does Josiah have the cattle unloaded?
(a) Near the forest
(b) Near the windmill
(c) Out in the foothills
(d) At the river

8. What does Tayo decide to do with the note when the door is not answered?
(a) Leave it in the bar
(b) Tape it to the window
(c) Tack it to the door frame
(d) Slide it under her door

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

10. What is unusual about the pine tree where Tayo makes a hole in the fence where his cattle are located?
(a) It has three trunks
(b) It has grown into one tree with an oak
(c) It is bent over so that it top almost touches the ground
(d) It has been split by lightning

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

12. What does Harley have in his hand when the friends stop to pick up Tayo who is walking on the side of the road?
(a) A camera
(b) Two bottles of Garden Deluxe Tokay
(c) Two cold beers
(d) A gun

13. What is the north side of Gallup called?
(a) The Freezer
(b) Little Africa
(c) Sundown
(d) The Reservation

14. Why does Josiah’s mistress leave the village?
(a) Josiah dies
(b) She goes home to care for her elderly mother
(c) She gets married
(d) She dies

15. What does Tayo do when he goes into the corn field one night?
(a) Strips the corn from the plants
(b) Smashes the melons growing there
(c) Draws a crop circle
(d) Lays down to watch the corn above him

Short Answer Questions

1. What did all the Navajos do in the white school when the teacher brought out a tub of dead frogs to dissect?

2. Upon what does Harley come riding up when he finds Tayo and asks for a beer?

3. What color is the beard of the store keeper where Tayo tries to buy some candy?

4. What does Ts’eh serve Tayo for dinner?

5. What is the main thing wrong with white people, according to the creation legend?

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