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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 woman with reddish hair do when white men come to harass the women at the arroyo?
(a) Throws the bottles back at the white men and curses them
(b) Kicks one of them in the groin
(c) She ignores them
(d) Shoots one with her bow

2. What does "she" say is the only cure in the four-line poem, "What She Said"?
(a) Hope
(b) Sleep
(c) A good Ceremony
(d) Love

3. How does Ts’eh match up plants and stones when she is sorting them on her table?
(a) By color
(b) By patterns
(c) By texture
(d) By size

4. What is the medicine man’s residence called?
(a) A hogan
(b) A teepee
(c) A larga
(d) He lives in a cave

5. What does Helen Jean do for a living in her hometown before she moves to Gallup?
(a) Bartender
(b) Hotel maid
(c) Waitress
(d) Cook for a missionary

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Harley tell Leroy to take Tayo for a cure?

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

3. Why does the Helen Jean leave the bar?

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

5. What does Robert tell Tayo the elders have said when Tayo tells Robert he is ready to help?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Tayo find the cattle?

2. What does Tayo’s mother do with him when he is four?

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. Why do the two ranch hands leave Tayo alone?

10. What does Betonie tell Tayo about change and trust?

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