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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 make a pattern for divination
(c) To get the blanket off a branch
(d) To get the snow off so the branches do not break

2. What does Old Grandma tell Auntie Tayo needs?
(a) To return to the war
(b) A medicine man
(c) A sweat lodge
(d) To get into a good fight

3. What does Auntie take from Tayo when he is a small boy and will not return to him?
(a) The name and address of his father
(b) A picture of his mother
(c) A picture of his father
(d) A letter from his mother

4. What is the tribe of the woman who is in the truck with Harley and Leroy when they stop and pick up Tayo?
(a) Navajo or Seminole
(b) Apache or Ute
(c) Pawnee or Prince Nez
(d) Mohawk or Cherokee

5. Where do Harley and Tayo pick up a ride after they leave the spring?
(a) At Harley’s house
(b) Nowhere, they are riding
(c) Near the edge of the desert barrio
(d) On the Acoma Road

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the old Utes say about elevators and juke boxes?

2. What does Tayo find out about cigarette butts when he is a toddler?

3. What kind of job does Helen Jean get in Gallup?

4. What fell out of the tree when the Indians were on a raid that told them someone was in the tree?

5. In May where does Tayo tell his family he is going to go?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Betonie do when he takes Tayo up into the foothills? How does Tayo respond?

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

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

5. What is the difference between Tayo’s life as a soldier and his life as a civilian on a reservation?

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

7. How does Josiah’s sister feel about Night Swan?

8. How does Tayo start herding the cattle?

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

10. How does Tayo and Rocky end up in the military and how do they end up stationed together?

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