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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) They arrest the woman
(d) Nothing, they are not involved

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

3. What does the medicine man say white people are to witchery?
(a) No different than Indians
(b) Nothing, witchery does not affect white people
(c) Blackness against the light
(d) Tools to be used

4. What does Floyd Lee call his miles of barbed wire fencing?
(a) Home moat
(b) Wolf-proof fence
(c) Indian bait
(d) Cattle prod

5. 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 is bent over so that it top almost touches the ground
(c) It has been split by lightning
(d) It has grown into one tree with an oak

6. What do Robert and Tayo take to Pinkie out at the sheep camp?
(a) Wool blankets
(b) Soda pop and comic books
(c) Pinkie’s girl friend
(d) Rented movies

7. Out of what did the old male Indians whittle toothpicks?
(a) Hickory branches
(b) Cacti thorns
(c) Pinon twigs
(d) Tumbleweed

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

9. What did the children call Tayo’s eyes when he was growing up?
(a) Bedroom eyes
(b) White man’s eyes
(c) Wimp eyes
(d) Mexican eyes

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

11. What does Betonie draw in the sand that he tells Tayo to remember?
(a) A map
(b) A type of herb for nausea
(c) The pattern of some stars
(d) How to twine vines for the next Ceremony

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

13. How does the Japanese soldier kill Rocky?
(a) Stabbing him in the heart
(b) Breaking his neck
(c) Shooting him
(d) Hitting his head with a rifle butt

14. 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 was recruited by a cattle rancher to work branding week
(c) He ended up in the jail at Los Lunas
(d) He met a white woman who took him to Las Vegas

15. What is the name of the Apache sheepherder Auntie has?
(a) White Cloud
(b) Mike
(c) Geronimo
(d) Daniel

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the worst thing for Tayo when in the war?

2. Why does Josiah send Tayo with a note to Josiah’s mistress?

3. What does Tayo do when Emo keeps talking about killing Japanese?

4. What does Tayo do with the heart and liver of the deer?

5. What does Tayo eat as he is walking back to Ts’eh’s house?

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