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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rocky tell Josiah about the cattle books Josiah decides to abandon?
(a) The books are written by scientist so one should follow their advice
(b) Nothing
(c) The books are written by white idiots
(d) The books will not help with raising cattle

2. What is the worst thing for Tayo when in the war?
(a) The rain
(b) The lack of privacy
(c) The sound of crickets
(d) The sound of artillery exploding

3. Why was Betonie’s grandmother thrown out of her village when she was born?
(a) She is born on a double full moon
(b) Her mother has no pain when she is born
(c) She is born with a caul
(d) She has hazel eyes

4. What is the name of the Apache sheepherder Auntie has?
(a) Mike
(b) White Cloud
(c) Geronimo
(d) Daniel

5. Under what kind of trees at the Y bar does Leroy park?
(a) Aspen
(b) Maple
(c) Elm
(d) Oak

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

7. What does the Irishman call out to Emo when the Irishman knocks on Emo’s door when Emo is with a redhead woman?
(a) Cross-breed
(b) Stinkin Indin
(c) Geronimo
(d) Custer

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

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

10. What does Tayo find out about cigarette butts when he is a toddler?
(a) He would vomit if he ate them
(b) They would come apart if he tugged on them
(c) They came in different colors
(d) They could be hot

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

12. What kind and what color of truck does Josiah drive?
(a) A black Chevy
(b) A red Ford
(c) A blue GMC
(d) A white El Camino

13. Out of what did the old male Indians whittle toothpicks?
(a) Tumbleweed
(b) Hickory branches
(c) Pinon twigs
(d) Cacti thorns

14. 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

15. 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 cannot feel the path of light because their aura is too dense
(c) Their souls separate from their bodies when they are born
(d) They do not know what happened to their souls

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ts’eh serve Tayo for dinner?

2. What is playing on the juke box at the Y bar when Tayo and the others enter the bar?

3. What does Emo carry in his little bag?

4. Upon what does Harley come riding up when he finds Tayo and asks for a beer?

5. Where does Old Grandma sit during the day most of the time?

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