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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. Where does Harley tell Leroy to take Tayo for a cure?
(a) The cold Coors hospital
(b) The medicine man
(c) The VA hospital
(d) The Red Rooster

2. Why does Josiah not brand the cows when he first gets them?
(a) He has the Mexican brand on his bill of sale
(b) They are too young
(c) He wants to fatten them up first
(d) He has no brand

3. Why did the sergeant from Isleta get a bronze star in the war?
(a) For saving the company commander
(b) For destroying a bunker full of Japanese
(c) For infiltrating enemy lines and killing a Japanese general
(d) For blowing up a Japanese torpedo boat

4. What is the worst thing for Tayo when in the war?
(a) The rain
(b) The sound of artillery exploding
(c) The lack of privacy
(d) The sound of crickets

5. What did the children call Tayo’s eyes when he was growing up?
(a) Wimp eyes
(b) White man’s eyes
(c) Bedroom eyes
(d) Mexican eyes

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Betonie draw in the sand that he tells Tayo to remember?

2. When does Lalo retire and close his bar?

3. What happens to the willows in the arroyo?

4. What does Josiah tell Tayo is the reason the cattle prices are down?

5. In one of the poems, who is Reed Woman's sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tayo find out when he returns to his family?

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

3. What does Old Grandma do with Tayo, what does he think he needs to do and what does she want him to do?

4. How does Robert begin to break through to Tayo and why might Robert be a good person to talk to his nephew?

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

6. What does Betonie say when Tayo says he wants to find Josiah’s cattle?

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

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

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

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

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