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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rocky wish for when he and Tayo throw money off the bridge in San Diego?
(a) That Tayo and he return heroes
(b) A safe return
(c) That Japan is destroyed with a large tsunami
(d) That his father returns from the war

2. With what does the medicine man cut Tayo’s head?
(a) His hunting knife
(b) A broken bottle
(c) His pocketknife
(d) A piece of flint

3. 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) Forces are trying to keep Tayo from completing the Ceremony
(d) Tayo does not believe he is sick

4. How many years has it been dry since Tayo prayed the rain away?
(a) 15
(b) 6
(c) 0
(d) 1

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

6. 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

7. What does Tayo decide to do with the note when the door is not answered?
(a) Slide it under her door
(b) Leave it in the bar
(c) Tape it to the window
(d) Tack it to the door frame

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

9. What type of tool does Tayo carry with him when he is looking for the cattle?
(a) Roofing hatchet
(b) Fencing pliers
(c) Hunting knife
(d) Wire dykes

10. Where did the medicine man first go to school?
(a) Salt Lake City
(b) Gallup
(c) Tahoe
(d) Riverside, Ca

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

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

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

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

15. Why does Josiah not brand the cows when he first gets them?
(a) He wants to fatten them up first
(b) He has the Mexican brand on his bill of sale
(c) He has no brand
(d) They are too young

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Harley have in his hand when the friends stop to pick up Tayo who is walking on the side of the road?

2. What is the name of Auntie’s old dog who always ran after female dogs in heat?

3. What does Tayo dream about the night he sleeps with Ts’eh?

4. To what tribe do the two Indians belong who get coins from Tayo when he and Robert are on the bridge?

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

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