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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Ku’oosh smell like?
(a) Lavender
(b) Mountain laurel and campfire smoke
(c) Vanilla
(d) Mutton tallow and sagebrush

4. According to the poem "Ceremony" at the beginning of the book, what tries to destroy the stories?
(a) Assumptions
(b) Humans
(c) Evil
(d) Lies

5. What does the medicine man tell Tayo to do after they walk Tayo through the Ceremony?
(a) Go to sleep
(b) Walk it once on his own
(c) Go home
(d) Eat

6. What animal does Tayo see as he is laying in the pine needles where he fell while looking for the cattle inside the fence?
(a) Deer
(b) Coyote
(c) Wolf
(d) Mountain lion

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

8. What is the medicine man’s residence called?
(a) A teepee
(b) A hogan
(c) A larga
(d) He lives in a cave

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

10. What does Helen Jean do for a living in her hometown before she moves to Gallup?
(a) Hotel maid
(b) Bartender
(c) Cook for a missionary
(d) Waitress

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

12. Where is Tayo's father from?
(a) Lubbuck
(b) Gallup
(c) Santa Fe
(d) Tasco

13. Who bought the Ford coupe that Tayo’s friends pick him up in to go to the bar?
(a) Leroy
(b) Emo
(c) Tayo
(d) Harley

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which direction do the cows always run?

2. Who goes to church on Sundays with Auntie?

3. Where did the medicine man see Geronimo on display?

4. What does Auntie tell Tayo and Old Grandma is the way that Pinkie dies?

5. How did white people come to be, according to the medicine man?

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