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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about the Japanese?
(a) They were related to the Indians 30,000 years ago
(b) They are part of the white sickness
(c) He does not mention the Japanese
(d) They are pushed to war by bad spirits

2. Why does Tayo suddenly tell Rocky he cannot go to the army?
(a) He is in love with an Indian girl in another village
(b) He cannot pretend to be Rocky’s brother
(c) Tayo forgot he had promised Josiah he would always stay to help on the reservation
(d) He cannot produce a birth certificate

3. What does Tayo say an Indian should avoid in Gallup?
(a) Wearing a cowboy hat if you are an Indian
(b) Any of the bars on the east side
(c) Going to any of the brothels on the south side
(d) Being in Gallup after dark

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who goes to church on Sundays with Auntie?
(a) Josiah
(b) Old Grandma
(c) The children
(d) No one

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

11. What does Old Grandma tell Auntie Tayo needs?
(a) To get into a good fight
(b) A medicine man
(c) To return to the war
(d) A sweat lodge

12. What does Tayo dream about the night he sleeps with Ts’eh?
(a) Rocky
(b) The cattle
(c) The woman
(d) His mother

13. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about what witchery does?
(a) It does not exist
(b) It only manipulates a small portion of reality
(c) Witchery does not discriminate between white man and Indian
(d) It is responsible for everything that happens

14. What happens to the willows in the arroyo?
(a) Drunk men chopped them down
(b) A flash flood up roots them
(c) They are burned up when a streak of lightning hits them
(d) Nothing

15. What does Tayo feel about the medicine man’s possessions?
(a) They are holy
(b) They are cast-offs of the white people
(c) There are too few of them
(d) They are too disorganized

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind and what color of truck does Josiah drive?

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

4. What does the medicine man tell Tayo to do after they walk Tayo through the Ceremony?

5. What is Emo drinking at the bar?

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