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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the army recruiter tell Tayo and Rocky about joining the military?
(a) He tells them anyone can fight for America when there is a war
(b) He says there is a special Indian unit
(c) He tells them it will bring money to the reservation
(d) He does not mention anything about them being Indians

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

7. Where do Josiah and Tayo fill up their water barrels?
(a) At the spring in the sandstone cave
(b) At the village well
(c) In the river
(d) At the government office

8. What does the medicine man tell Tayo is the reason Tayo is having a difficult time getting well?
(a) Tayo must forgive himself first
(b) Tayo does not want to get well
(c) Tayo does not believe he is sick
(d) Forces are trying to keep Tayo from completing the Ceremony

9. With what creature is Thought-Woman associated?
(a) Spider
(b) Butterfly
(c) Coyote
(d) Wolf

10. Why are some of the cattles’ necks scraped?
(a) Their necks are not messed up
(b) They kept trying to get past the barbed wire
(c) The white people use them for Texas roping
(d) They ran into the walls of the arroyo

11. What does Auntie take from Tayo when he is a small boy and will not return to him?
(a) A picture of his father
(b) A picture of his mother
(c) The name and address of his father
(d) A letter from his mother

12. What does Ts’eh tell Tayo where the cattle are located ask him when he first comes to her house?
(a) If he is a war veteran
(b) If he is an alcoholic
(c) Who sent him
(d) If the cattle belong to him

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

14. What does the medicine man say about living so close to Gallup?
(a) The town belongs to the land
(b) He is thinking about moving
(c) He hates it
(d) The town is out of place

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes to church on Sundays with Auntie?

2. When does Lalo retire and close his bar?

3. What does the Irishman call out to Emo when the Irishman knocks on Emo’s door when Emo is with a redhead woman?

4. What is the name of the fort that the medicine man’s grandfather did not want to have trouble with?

5. Where does Tayo want to go when he wakes up crying and dreaming about Josiah?

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