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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Rocky and Tayo the first day they are in Oakland?
(a) They are given extra duty for arriving late back to the barracks
(b) An old woman stops her car and asks God to bless them
(c) They are arrested for being Indians in a white bar
(d) They meet up with blond twins and go home with them

2. How does Ts’eh match up plants and stones when she is sorting them on her table?
(a) By patterns
(b) By size
(c) By texture
(d) By color

3. When Tayo and the medicine man leave his home, what is the medicine man riding?
(a) A palomino
(b) A mule
(c) An old pinto horse
(d) A burro

4. What is the main thing wrong with white people, according to the creation legend?
(a) They cannot feel the path of light because their aura is too dense
(b) They do not know what happened to their souls
(c) Their souls separate from their bodies when they are born
(d) They see only objects and not living creatures or living earth

5. What does Tayo say no one is allowed to do to an invisible one?
(a) Take a picture
(b) Walk with one
(c) Feed them
(d) Talk to them

6. Why do the two cowboys chasing Tayo leave not take him back to their boss?
(a) They are too far from the main house
(b) They see that his bill of sale is legitimate
(c) They find some mountain lion tracks
(d) They have to find some missing cattle

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

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

9. What does Josiah’s mistress say frightens most people?
(a) Losing one’s identity
(b) Dying of thirst in the desert
(c) Change
(d) Death

10. What is Tayo’s mother doing before he is born that his Auntie sees?
(a) Dancing in the moonlight
(b) Standing under a cottonwood tree naked
(c) Kneeling under the old oak and crying
(d) Swimming in the river with a white man

11. What does Tayo tell Betonie about the Ceremony Betonie has performed?
(a) Tayo does not talk to Betonie about the Ceremony
(b) Tayo says he wants to pay Betonie for it
(c) Tayo says he believes he is cured
(d) Tayo says it did no good

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

13. 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) They were all born at the same time but took different paths through evolution
(d) The Great Spirit created them to teach Indians courage

14. What does the old Mexican man bring Tayo when Tayo is at the café?
(a) Fried chicken
(b) Salsa and chips
(c) A bowl of menudo
(d) A tostada

15. Where does Josiah have the cattle unloaded?
(a) Out in the foothills
(b) Near the windmill
(c) Near the forest
(d) At the river

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where do the holy men look when they want to know the time to dance for rain?

3. Where is Tayo's father from?

4. What fear does Tayo hear in Auntie’s voice when Tayo is a boy?

5. What does Ku'oosh tell Tayo about the world?

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