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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 medicine man tell Tayo is the reason Tayo is having a difficult time getting well?
(a) Tayo must forgive himself first
(b) Forces are trying to keep Tayo from completing the Ceremony
(c) Tayo does not believe he is sick
(d) Tayo does not want to get well

2. Who bootlegs beer to the Indians?
(a) Lalo
(b) Stan Blackburn
(c) Petricia
(d) The Red Rooster Tavern

3. Where does Ulibarri live?
(a) San Angelo
(b) Magdalena
(c) Las Cruce
(d) El Paso

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

5. How does Harley get to a bar once when he had been sent to the far reaches of the reservation?
(a) Rode a unicycle he found in the dump
(b) Hotwired a tractor and took it
(c) Road a cow
(d) Hitchhiked

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of tool does Tayo carry with him when he is looking for the cattle?

2. Where is Thought-Woman sitting in the opening poem?

3. What does Emo suggests the men do since they fought a white man’s war and still are stuck on a dried up reservation?

4. What does Harley say he traded for the truck he is driving?

5. What do Robert and Tayo take to Pinkie out at the sheep camp?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Tayo’s aunt dislike Tayo and Tayo’s mother?

3. Of what does Tayo dream as he and Robert prepare for winter? What does Tayo decide to do because of the dreams?

4. How does Rocky end up dead?

5. Who is Night Swan and how does she know Josiah?

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

7. What happens to Tayo after he attacks Emo?

8. How is Tayo treated as a child by the village?

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

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

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