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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) Silver stars
(b) Purple hearts
(c) Commendation medals
(d) General discharges

2. Where does Tayo sleep the night when the cowboys let him go?
(a) Near the pine tree where he cut the fence
(b) Next to the body of his horse
(c) In a cave
(d) In a shallow depression covered with leaves

3. What is the medicine man’s residence called?
(a) A hogan
(b) He lives in a cave
(c) A larga
(d) A teepee

4. Who does Tayo keep thinking he sees as being dead?
(a) A yellow-stripped cat
(b) His mother
(c) Josiah
(d) Rocky

5. What does Tayo say when Leroy offers him a drink while in the truck?
(a) He does not like the brand of wine
(b) His stomach is too sick for drinking
(c) He would like a beer
(d) He is attending AA

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does medicine man say deeds and titles mean nothing to Mount Taylor?

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

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

4. Why does the Helen Jean leave the bar?

5. What does the army recruiter tell Tayo and Rocky about joining the military?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ku'oosh talk to Tayo about?

3. What does Betonie tell Tayo about change and trust?

4. 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?

5. How is Tayo when the war is over?

6. What does Tayo tell Ku'oosh about the war and about the drought?

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

8. How does a woman help Tayo find the cattle?

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

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

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