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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. Why does Tayo shake the branches on the tree outside Ts’eh’s house?
(a) To watch the snow fall
(b) To get the snow off so the branches do not break
(c) To make a pattern for divination
(d) To get the blanket off a branch

2. What does the medicine man say the white doctors do with the dead in the mental hospitals?
(a) Burn them
(b) Keep them in a room and talk to them
(c) Bury them
(d) Dissect them

3. How is Tayo able to anticipate Auntie’s mood?
(a) By what she cooks
(b) By how high her voice is when she speaks
(c) By what television show she has on
(d) By watching her face

4. Why does the Helen Jean leave the bar?
(a) Her brother came to get her
(b) She does not like the atmosphere
(c) She is interested in a Mexican man there
(d) She has to go meet her sister

5. Upon what does Harley come riding up when he finds Tayo and asks for a beer?
(a) A bicycle
(b) A motorcycle
(c) A burro
(d) A horse

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tayo say no one is allowed to do to an invisible one?

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

3. What is painted on the war shield that is at Tayo’s house when he returns from finding the cattle?

4. How did white people come to be, according to the medicine man?

5. Under what kind of trees at the Y bar does Leroy park?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Josiah and the boys learn about cattle care?

2. What kind of Indian is Tayo and what are his earliest memories of his mother?

3. What does Betonie say when Tayo says he wants to find Josiah’s cattle?

4. What happens with Tayo when he first gets back home and where does he stay?

5. How is Rocky different from Tayo and what does Rocky want to do when he is an adult?

6. What does Tayo’s mother do with him when he is four?

7. Where is Tayo when his friends find him and what does Tayo tell himself about them?

8. Why do the two ranch hands leave Tayo alone?

9. What does Tayo first do when he leaves Betonie?

10. How does Rocky and Auntie feel about Josiah’s decision on how to take care of the cattle?

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