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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Josiah and Robert do to the deer while Rocky is gutting it?
(a) Nothing
(b) Cut off its head
(c) Sprinkle cornmeal in its nose
(d) Skin it

2. What is Tayo's heritage?
(a) Anastzia and Pueblo
(b) Luguna and Pueblo
(c) Luguna and a white man
(d) Cree and Sioux

3. 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) Mountain lion
(d) Wolf

4. Who can help the man who believes he is a coyote, according to Indian legend?
(a) Any medicine man
(b) Witchery from a chief’s daughter
(c) The four old bear people
(d) Ingesting peyote with a priest

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

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

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

8. What happens to the willows in the arroyo?
(a) Nothing
(b) A flash flood up roots them
(c) They are burned up when a streak of lightning hits them
(d) Drunk men chopped them down

9. 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 Rocky liking Tayo
(d) Fear of being trapped in the oldest ways

10. Who goes to church on Sundays with Auntie?
(a) Old Grandma
(b) The children
(c) Josiah
(d) No one

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

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 gun
(b) Two cold beers
(c) Two bottles of Garden Deluxe Tokay
(d) A camera

13. What is playing on the juke box at the Y bar when Tayo and the others enter the bar?
(a) A Mexican polka
(b) A cowboy country western
(c) A World War II military song
(d) A love ballad

14. What animal went to the mother of the people during a drought and asked forgiveness for the people?
(a) A dragonfly
(b) A greenbottle fly
(c) A road runner
(d) A coyote

15. What is Emo drinking at the bar?
(a) Wine
(b) Whiskey
(c) Beer
(d) Vodka

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tayo say no one is allowed to do to an invisible one?

2. Where is Thought-Woman sitting in the opening poem?

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

4. What does Tayo say one has to know in order to get to the moon?

5. When Emo is banished from the Pueblo, where does he go?

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