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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 animal went to the mother of the people during a drought and asked forgiveness for the people?
(a) A dragonfly
(b) A greenbottle fly
(c) A coyote
(d) A road runner

2. 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

3. What kind of job does Helen Jean get in Gallup?
(a) Waitress
(b) Cook
(c) Theater janitor
(d) Secretary

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the worst thing for Tayo when in the war?

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

3. What is the name of Auntie’s old dog who always ran after female dogs in heat?

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

5. When Tayo and the medicine man leave his home, what is the medicine man riding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the herd of cattle do as soon as they are unloaded and what does Josiah tell Tayo about their behavior?

2. How does Tayo free the cattle and what kind of animal does he see when he is freeing the cattle?

3. What does Ku'oosh say to Tayo after Tayo talks to Ku'oosh and what does Ku'oosh leave Tayo? What is Tayo’s response?

4. Why does Tayo attack Emo?

5. Who are the family members who are kind to Tayo?

6. How does Rocky’s mother feel about him going off to war and what does Tayo tell her?

7. What does Betonie tell Tayo about why Tayo saw Indian faces in the Japanese?

8. How does Josiah feel about Tayo and how does Josiah treat Tayo?

9. What does Betonie show Tayo about his illness and how it is related to white people?

10. Where does Robert take Tayo at Ku'oosh’s suggestion and how does Tayo feel when he gets there? How does Tayo’s feelings change?

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