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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Descheeny married to when he brings a Mexican girl to his home?
(a) Three sisters
(b) A Navajo medicine woman
(c) A white woman
(d) Twins

3. How old is Tayo when his mother leaves him?
(a) Five
(b) Two
(c) Four
(d) Six

4. With what were the walls of the Ts’eh’s cabin plastered?
(a) Red Clay
(b) Black porcelain mud
(c) Gray mud
(d) Joint compound

5. What happens to Harley when he left the sheep he was watching and left his horse tied by the road?
(a) He met a white woman who took him to Las Vegas
(b) He was mugged and wounded badly
(c) He ended up in the jail at Los Lunas
(d) He was recruited by a cattle rancher to work branding week

6. What does Ku'oosh tell Tayo about the world?
(a) It is a frightening place
(b) It is a fragile place
(c) It belongs to the Indians
(d) It is strong and consistent

7. Why does Josiah send Tayo with a note to Josiah’s mistress?
(a) It is raining and he will be too busy
(b) Josiah does not want to face his mistress again
(c) Josiah cannot get away from Auntie
(d) Tayo is going into Cubero anyway

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

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

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

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

12. What did all the Navajos do in the white school when the teacher brought out a tub of dead frogs to dissect?
(a) Start singing a chant
(b) Tipped the tub over
(c) Stood up and turned their backs to the tub
(d) Stood up and left the room

13. What kind of victims is Descheeny known to be able to help?
(a) Women who have been abused by men
(b) Drug addicts
(c) Men returning from war
(d) People tainted by Christianity or liquor

14. Where does Ulibarri live?
(a) San Angelo
(b) Las Cruce
(c) El Paso
(d) Magdalena

15. How did the medicine man get to Chicago in 1903?
(a) He rode a horse
(b) He walked
(c) On a bus
(d) By train

Short Answer Questions

1. From where is the bartender who waits on Tayo and his friends?

2. What is Emo drinking at the bar?

3. What happens to Rocky and Tayo the first day they are in Oakland?

4. What does the old Mexican man bring Tayo when Tayo is at the café?

5. What kind of fur vest is the hunter who Tayo meets walking wear?

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