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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the sergeant from Isleta get a bronze star in the war?
(a) For saving the company commander
(b) For blowing up a Japanese torpedo boat
(c) For infiltrating enemy lines and killing a Japanese general
(d) For destroying a bunker full of Japanese

2. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about who the medicine man’s grandmother was?
(a) She was a Navajo
(b) She was white
(c) He did not know his grandmother
(d) She was a Mexican with green eyes

3. Where do Harley and Tayo pick up a ride after they leave the spring?
(a) On the Acoma Road
(b) Nowhere, they are riding
(c) At Harley’s house
(d) Near the edge of the desert barrio

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

5. What is the name of the fort that the medicine man’s grandfather did not want to have trouble with?
(a) Ft. Huachuca
(b) Ft. Braden
(c) Ft. Sumter
(d) Ft. San Mateo

6. What was the woman Josiah visits called when she was a dancer?
(a) Spin Legs
(b) Black Beauty
(c) Lady Wind
(d) Black Swan

7. What is the name of the medicine man that Ku'oosh wants Tayo to see?
(a) Victor
(b) Betonie
(c) Passh’ha
(d) Red Sun

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

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

10. What does Emo say about the white people as he plays with the Japanese teeth?
(a) They should have been able to beat the Japanese in one year
(b) They are not as fierce as the Japanese
(c) They have too much and the Indians should go and take it from them
(d) It would take five white soldiers to equal one Indian soldier

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

12. Who told Sun Man how to win the clouds back from the Gambler?
(a) Wolf Pack
(b) Spider Woman
(c) Rattlesnake
(d) Crow Man

13. What was the blond girl on the calendar in the store holding in her hand?
(a) A guitar
(b) Two white doves
(c) A bottle of Coca Cola
(d) A Mars bar

14. What is playing on the juke box at the Y bar when Tayo and the others enter the bar?
(a) A love ballad
(b) A cowboy country western
(c) A Mexican polka
(d) A World War II military song

15. Into what mountains does Tayo, the medicine man, and Shush ride?
(a) Chuska Mountains
(b) Withalacoochie Mountains
(c) Taylor Mountains
(d) Los Padres Mountains

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josiah tell Tayo the frogs do during a drought?

2. How does Harley get to a bar once when he had been sent to the far reaches of the reservation?

3. Where is Tayo's father from?

4. What does the medicine man tell Tayo is the reason Tayo is having a difficult time getting well?

5. Why does the Helen Jean leave the bar?

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