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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ts’eh tell Tayo where the cattle are located ask him when he first comes to her house?
(a) If the cattle belong to him
(b) Who sent him
(c) If he is an alcoholic
(d) If he is a war veteran

2. What does Ts’eh serve Tayo for dinner?
(a) Stew
(b) Fried chicken
(c) Chili
(d) Sweetened yams

3. What does Tayo eat as he is walking back to Ts’eh’s house?
(a) Beef jerky
(b) Gum drops
(c) Pinon nuts
(d) Nothing

4. 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) A safe return
(c) That Tayo and he return heroes
(d) That his father returns from the war

5. What does Tayo tell Ku'oosh about Tayo’s experience in the war?
(a) He killed too many innocent people
(b) He watched his best friend die
(c) He never killed one enemy
(d) He refuses to talk about the war at all

6. What does Tayo's sergeant tell the men to do that Tayo is unable to do?
(a) Bury evidence
(b) Kill young children
(c) Kill unarmed Japanese prisoners
(d) Beat up another American soldier

7. What does Josiah’s mistress say frightens most people?
(a) Losing one’s identity
(b) Change
(c) Death
(d) Dying of thirst in the desert

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

9. 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) She was a Mexican with green eyes
(d) He did not know his grandmother

10. What fear does Tayo hear in Auntie’s voice when Tayo is a boy?
(a) Fear of losing Tayo
(b) Fear of being trapped in the oldest ways
(c) Fear of Josiah
(d) Fear of Rocky liking Tayo

11. What is unusual about the pine tree where Tayo makes a hole in the fence where his cattle are located?
(a) It has grown into one tree with an oak
(b) It has three trunks
(c) It is bent over so that it top almost touches the ground
(d) It has been split by lightning

12. What was wrong with the wool blankets the army gave the Indians in the 1800’s?
(a) They were moth eaten
(b) They were all green
(c) They were infected with smallpox
(d) They were more cotton than wool

13. What does Tayo do when Emo will not leave him alone at the bar?
(a) He calls the police and has them arrest Emo
(b) He hits Harley in the head with a cue stick
(c) He leaves the bar
(d) He shoves a broken beer bottle into Emo’s stomach

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

15. In May where does Tayo tell his family he is going to go?
(a) To the spring cave
(b) To the ranch
(c) To Gallup
(d) To California

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of tool does Tayo carry with him when he is looking for the cattle?

2. What does Josiah ride when he is cutting cattle out on a deal with Ulibarri?

3. What are the two names that all of creation is said to have in modern times?

4. What does Rocky tell Josiah about the cattle books Josiah decides to abandon?

5. Why did the sergeant from Isleta get a bronze star in the war?

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