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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did white people come to be, according to the medicine man?
(a) They were created by Indian witchery
(b) A white god from another universe placed them on the earth
(c) The Great Spirit created them to teach Indians courage
(d) They were all born at the same time but took different paths through evolution

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

3. Who does Tayo keep thinking he sees as being dead?
(a) His mother
(b) Josiah
(c) A yellow-stripped cat
(d) Rocky

4. What does "she" say is the only cure in the four-line poem, "What She Said"?
(a) Love
(b) A good Ceremony
(c) Sleep
(d) Hope

5. What does Josiah tell Tayo is the reason the cattle prices are down?
(a) He does not tell Tayo anything about cattle prices
(b) Because all the cattle are being taken to the army posts
(c) People are not buying because of the war
(d) Because of the drought

6. What does Rocky tell Josiah about the cattle books Josiah decides to abandon?
(a) Nothing
(b) The books will not help with raising cattle
(c) The books are written by scientist so one should follow their advice
(d) The books are written by white idiots

7. What does Harley say riding in the truck at top speed is better than?
(a) Warm apple pie with vanilla ice cream
(b) Taking the roller coaster in Atlantic City
(c) A six pack of cold beer
(d) Carnival rides at the Laguna festival

8. How old is Tayo when his mother leaves him?
(a) Six
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Two

9. Why does Tayo shake the branches on the tree outside Ts’eh’s house?
(a) To get the blanket off a branch
(b) To get the snow off so the branches do not break
(c) To watch the snow fall
(d) To make a pattern for divination

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

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

12. What are the two names that all of creation is said to have in modern times?
(a) Indian and white
(b) Spiritual and material
(c) Old and new
(d) Mundane and ceremonial

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

14. What do the old singers send to Descheeny?
(a) Patients they cannot cure
(b) Bottles of liquor
(c) Boxes of tobacco
(d) Any animal who is injured

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to the willows in the arroyo?

3. What does the teacher at the school call the Indian stories about the world?

4. In which direction do the cows always run?

5. With what were the walls of the Ts’eh’s cabin plastered?

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