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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 about who the medicine man’s grandmother was?
(a) She was a Mexican with green eyes
(b) She was a Navajo
(c) He did not know his grandmother
(d) She was white

2. What does Josiah tell Tayo is the reason for droughts?
(a) When people forget and misbehave
(b) The white man abuses the land
(c) The wind is too wild
(d) The sun has changed its position

3. What does the medicine man say the white doctors do with the dead in the mental hospitals?
(a) Dissect them
(b) Keep them in a room and talk to them
(c) Bury them
(d) Burn them

4. What does Tayo feel about the medicine man’s possessions?
(a) They are cast-offs of the white people
(b) They are holy
(c) There are too few of them
(d) They are too disorganized

5. In one of the poems, who is Reed Woman's sister?
(a) Sand Woman
(b) Tree Woman
(c) Corn Woman
(d) Sky Woman

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tayo do right before Rocky begins to dress a deer they killed in a hunt?

2. What was wrong with the wool blankets the army gave the Indians in the 1800’s?

3. To what tribe do the two Indians belong who get coins from Tayo when he and Robert are on the bridge?

4. What is Tayo’s mother doing before he is born that his Auntie sees?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Tayo tell Ku'oosh about the war and about the drought?

4. How is Tayo when the war is over?

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

6. What does the woman tell Tayo when she sees him again and what is his response?

7. What does Ku'oosh talk to Tayo about?

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

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

10. Who is hired as a shepherd after Harley and how does that go?

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