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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where is the bartender who waits on Tayo and his friends?
(a) New Orleans
(b) Gallup
(c) Albuquerque
(d) Cubero

2. What was the woman Josiah visits called when she was a dancer?
(a) Lady Wind
(b) Black Beauty
(c) Black Swan
(d) Spin Legs

3. What is Tayo's heritage?
(a) Luguna and a white man
(b) Luguna and Pueblo
(c) Cree and Sioux
(d) Anastzia and Pueblo

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who bootlegs beer to the Indians?
(a) Petricia
(b) The Red Rooster Tavern
(c) Stan Blackburn
(d) Lalo

10. What does Emo carry in his little bag?
(a) Human finger bones
(b) Human teeth
(c) Stones from the mountain
(d) Gems he stole from the Japanese

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

12. What has Rocky promised to buy Old Grandma with his army pay?
(a) A new trailer
(b) A television
(c) A kerosene stove
(d) A sombrero

13. What color of sheets are on the bed at Josiah’s mistress’s home?
(a) Tan
(b) White
(c) Blue
(d) Red

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

15. What does Auntie tell Tayo and Old Grandma is the way that Pinkie dies?
(a) He is hit by a car
(b) Pinkie does not get killed
(c) Leroy stabbed him in the heart
(d) Emo shoots him in the back of the head

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of the poems, who is Reed Woman's sister?

2. To what tribe do the two Indians belong who get coins from Tayo when he and Robert are on the bridge?

3. What do the doctors say is the cause of battle fatigue?

4. How many years has it been dry since Tayo prayed the rain away?

5. What is the police’s response to the woman with the reddish hair’s behavior?

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