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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 does the old Mexican man bring Tayo when Tayo is at the café?
(a) A tostada
(b) Salsa and chips
(c) A bowl of menudo
(d) Fried chicken

2. What does Tayo feel about the medicine man’s possessions?
(a) They are holy
(b) They are cast-offs of the white people
(c) There are too few of them
(d) They are too disorganized

3. Where is Tayo's father from?
(a) Gallup
(b) Tasco
(c) Lubbuck
(d) Santa Fe

4. According to the poem "Ceremony" at the beginning of the book, what tries to destroy the stories?
(a) Humans
(b) Evil
(c) Lies
(d) Assumptions

5. What does Tayo do right before Rocky begins to dress a deer they killed in a hunt?
(a) Walks away
(b) Start crying
(c) Covers the deer’s head with his jacket
(d) Pulls up long grass and covers the deer’s head

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes to church on Sundays with Auntie?

2. What was the woman Josiah visits called when she was a dancer?

3. What does Tayo say when Leroy offers him a drink while in the truck?

4. Where do the holy men look when they want to know the time to dance for rain?

5. When does Lalo retire and close his bar?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Tayo find out when he returns to his family?

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

4. What does Josiah decide to purchase and who advised him to do it?

5. Why does Tayo attack Emo?

6. What happens to the family’s shepherd, Harley, the dog and the sheep?

7. What does Josiah tell Tayo about the spring and how does Tayo feel about the story?

8. What does Tayo remember about Josiah and Night Swan?

9. What does Tayo watch his friends do from a boulder above them?

10. What does the woman tell Tayo when she sees him again and what is his response?

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