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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do Tayo, Leroy and Emo earn in the war?
(a) Purple hearts
(b) Silver stars
(c) General discharges
(d) Commendation medals
2. Why was Betonie’s grandmother thrown out of her village when she was born?
(a) Her mother has no pain when she is born
(b) She has hazel eyes
(c) She is born with a caul
(d) She is born on a double full moon
3. What is Tayo’s mother doing before he is born that his Auntie sees?
(a) Standing under a cottonwood tree naked
(b) Dancing in the moonlight
(c) Swimming in the river with a white man
(d) Kneeling under the old oak and crying
4. What does Tayo do when he goes into the corn field one night?
(a) Draws a crop circle
(b) Strips the corn from the plants
(c) Smashes the melons growing there
(d) Lays down to watch the corn above him
5. What is the tribe of the woman who is in the truck with Harley and Leroy when they stop and pick up Tayo?
(a) Pawnee or Prince Nez
(b) Mohawk or Cherokee
(c) Navajo or Seminole
(d) Apache or Ute
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Tayo do with the heart and liver of the deer?
2. What are the two names that all of creation is said to have in modern times?
3. What is the main thing wrong with white people, according to the creation legend?
4. What is unusual about the pine tree where Tayo makes a hole in the fence where his cattle are located?
5. What kind of job does Helen Jean get in Gallup?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Josiah tell Tayo about the spring and how does Tayo feel about the story?
2. What does Betonie say when Tayo says he wants to find Josiah’s cattle?
3. Why does Tayo attack Emo?
4. What kind of Indian is Tayo and what are his earliest memories of his mother?
5. What does Ku'oosh talk to Tayo about?
6. How does a woman help Tayo find the cattle?
7. How does Tayo free the cattle and what kind of animal does he see when he is freeing the cattle?
8. Where are Tayo and Rocky sent, what kind of problem does Tayo have there and what does Rocky do to try and help Tayo?
9. How does Robert begin to break through to Tayo and why might Robert be a good person to talk to his nephew?
10. How does Rocky’s mother feel about him going off to war and what does Tayo tell her?
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