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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 Robert and Tayo take to Pinkie out at the sheep camp?
(a) Pinkie’s girl friend
(b) Rented movies
(c) Wool blankets
(d) Soda pop and comic books

2. What is Tayo’s mother doing before he is born that his Auntie sees?
(a) Dancing in the moonlight
(b) Kneeling under the old oak and crying
(c) Swimming in the river with a white man
(d) Standing under a cottonwood tree naked

3. What does the army recruiter tell Tayo and Rocky about joining the military?
(a) He says there is a special Indian unit
(b) He tells them it will bring money to the reservation
(c) He does not mention anything about them being Indians
(d) He tells them anyone can fight for America when there is a war

4. What was the woman Josiah visits called when she was a dancer?
(a) Black Swan
(b) Spin Legs
(c) Lady Wind
(d) Black Beauty

5. What does Rocky wish for when he and Tayo throw money off the bridge in San Diego?
(a) That Tayo and he return heroes
(b) That his father returns from the war
(c) A safe return
(d) That Japan is destroyed with a large tsunami

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Descheeny married to when he brings a Mexican girl to his home?

2. What does Josiah and Robert do to the deer while Rocky is gutting it?

3. What does Helen Jean do for a living in her hometown before she moves to Gallup?

4. How did white people come to be, according to the medicine man?

5. What does Tayo eat as he is walking back to Ts’eh’s house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Tayo when the war is over?

4. What do Tayo’s friends do when they come again and what does he do first?

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

6. What does Tayo do with his memories of Night Swan and Josiah?

7. What happens when Tayo is knocked unconscious and then wakes?

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

9. How does Tayo start herding 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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