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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. How does the medicine man Tayo is sent to wear his hair?
(a) In a single braid down his back
(b) It is cut short like the military
(c) It is shoulder length and wavy
(d) Tied in a chongo knot with red yarn

2. How many years has it been dry since Tayo prayed the rain away?
(a) 6
(b) 15
(c) 0
(d) 1

3. What does "she" say is the only cure in the four-line poem, "What She Said"?
(a) Sleep
(b) A good Ceremony
(c) Hope
(d) Love

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

5. What happens to Harley when he left the sheep he was watching and left his horse tied by the road?
(a) He ended up in the jail at Los Lunas
(b) He met a white woman who took him to Las Vegas
(c) He was mugged and wounded badly
(d) He was recruited by a cattle rancher to work branding week

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who bought the Ford coupe that Tayo’s friends pick him up in to go to the bar?

3. What does the medicine man tell Tayo to do after they walk Tayo through the Ceremony?

4. What are the two names that all of creation is said to have in modern times?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where does Tayo find the cattle?

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. What does Tayo do when his friends leave in the morning what does he come to realize?

6. What happens to Tayo after he attacks Emo?

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

8. How are the cattle branded and what does Josiah do about that?

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

10. Why does Tayo attack Emo?

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