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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Floyd Lee call his miles of barbed wire fencing?
(a) Cattle prod
(b) Wolf-proof fence
(c) Indian bait
(d) Home moat

3. For what is Reed Woman scolded by her sister?
(a) Sleeping all day
(b) Dancing all night
(c) Bathing all day
(d) Singing during the sacred

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

5. How does Harley get to a bar once when he had been sent to the far reaches of the reservation?
(a) Road a cow
(b) Rode a unicycle he found in the dump
(c) Hitchhiked
(d) Hotwired a tractor and took it

6. Why does Auntie always watch Tayo more closely than Rocky when they were growing up?
(a) Rocky was innately good
(b) Tayo always need more attention
(c) Rocky was her own son and she had to raise him
(d) Tayo had a more promising future

7. What color is the beard of the store keeper where Tayo tries to buy some candy?
(a) Black
(b) Red
(c) Blond
(d) Brown

8. What does Tayo do when Emo keeps talking about killing Japanese?
(a) He leaves the bar
(b) He smashes a beer bottle over Emo’s head
(c) He knifes Emo in the arm
(d) He jumps up and calls Emo a killer

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

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

11. What does Josiah and Robert do to the deer while Rocky is gutting it?
(a) Nothing
(b) Skin it
(c) Cut off its head
(d) Sprinkle cornmeal in its nose

12. What does "she" say is the only cure in the four-line poem, "What She Said"?
(a) Hope
(b) Sleep
(c) Love
(d) A good Ceremony

13. 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 World War II military song
(d) A Mexican polka

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

15. 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) They see only objects and not living creatures or living earth
(d) Their souls separate from their bodies when they are born

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Betonie draw in the sand that he tells Tayo to remember?

2. What animal went to the mother of the people during a drought and asked forgiveness for the people?

3. How did white people come to be, according to the medicine man?

4. What animal does Tayo see as he is laying in the pine needles where he fell while looking for the cattle inside the fence?

5. To whom does Tayo talk almost incessantly?

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