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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 is the main thing wrong with white people, according to the creation legend?
(a) They cannot feel the path of light because their aura is too dense
(b) They do not know what happened to their souls
(c) They see only objects and not living creatures or living earth
(d) Their souls separate from their bodies when they are born

2. What does Emo say about the white people as he plays with the Japanese teeth?
(a) They are not as fierce as the Japanese
(b) It would take five white soldiers to equal one Indian soldier
(c) They have too much and the Indians should go and take it from them
(d) They should have been able to beat the Japanese in one year

3. Who is Descheeny married to when he brings a Mexican girl to his home?
(a) A Navajo medicine woman
(b) A white woman
(c) Three sisters
(d) Twins

4. What does the medicine man say white people are to witchery?
(a) Blackness against the light
(b) No different than Indians
(c) Nothing, witchery does not affect white people
(d) Tools to be used

5. What does Tayo do when he goes into the corn field one night?
(a) Draws a crop circle
(b) Lays down to watch the corn above him
(c) Smashes the melons growing there
(d) Strips the corn from the plants

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Tayo suddenly tell Rocky he cannot go to the army?

2. What does Tayo say one has to know in order to get to the moon?

3. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about the Japanese?

4. What kind of victims is Descheeny known to be able to help?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tayo first do when he leaves Betonie?

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

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

4. What does Tayo first do when he goes to hunt for the cattle?

5. How does Rocky end up dead?

6. Where does Tayo find the cattle?

7. Where does Tayo spend the night on the day he finds the cattle and who does he see when he wakes?

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

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

10. How does Tayo prefer to sleep and how does Old Grandma and Robert feel around Tayo?

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