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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 Tayo's mother live?
(a) In an apartment in Gallup
(b) She is homeless
(c) In a trailer on the Sioux reservation
(d) In a house in Santa Fe

2. What does Floyd Lee call his miles of barbed wire fencing?
(a) Home moat
(b) Cattle prod
(c) Indian bait
(d) Wolf-proof fence

3. What is the tribe of the woman who is in the truck with Harley and Leroy when they stop and pick up Tayo?
(a) Pawnee or Prince Nez
(b) Navajo or Seminole
(c) Mohawk or Cherokee
(d) Apache or Ute

4. Why does Auntie keep Josiah very busy?
(a) So he will be too tired to date
(b) So he will not drink alcoholic drinks
(c) She does not keep him busy
(d) So he cannot go to Cubero

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ulibarri live?

2. What is playing on the juke box at the Y bar when Tayo and the others enter the bar?

3. What is the name of the fort that the medicine man’s grandfather did not want to have trouble with?

4. Why does Tayo think that white people have nothing?

5. What happens to Harley when he left the sheep he was watching and left his horse tied by the road?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does Josiah decide to purchase and who advised him to do it?

4. Why does Tayo feel guilty about Josiah?

5. What is the difference between Tayo’s life as a soldier and his life as a civilian on a reservation?

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

7. What happens with Tayo when he first gets back home and where does he stay?

8. What happens to Tayo after he attacks Emo?

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

10. How does Tayo free the cattle and what kind of animal does he see when he is freeing the cattle?

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