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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 Tayo say when Leroy offers him a drink while in the truck?
(a) He would like a beer
(b) His stomach is too sick for drinking
(c) He does not like the brand of wine
(d) He is attending AA

2. Where does Tayo want to go when he wakes up crying and dreaming about Josiah?
(a) The bar where his mother works
(b) His cousin's old RV out on the edge of the reservation
(c) A cave where he and Rocky used to stay for days at a time
(d) The veteran's hospital

3. Where does Helen Jean live before she moves to Gallup?
(a) Towac
(b) Mexico
(c) Okwahee
(d) Tako

4. What do Robert and Tayo take to Pinkie out at the sheep camp?
(a) Rented movies
(b) Wool blankets
(c) Soda pop and comic books
(d) Pinkie’s girl friend

5. When Tayo and the medicine man leave his home, what is the medicine man riding?
(a) A mule
(b) An old pinto horse
(c) A burro
(d) A palomino

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the medicine man tell Tayo to do after they walk Tayo through the Ceremony?

2. What is the tribe of the woman who is in the truck with Harley and Leroy when they stop and pick up Tayo?

3. What is carved on Ts’eh’s silver buckles on her moccasins?

4. Who told Sun Man how to win the clouds back from the Gambler?

5. What does Ku'oosh tell Tayo about the world?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Josiah tell Tayo about the spring and how does Tayo feel about the story?

3. What kind of Indian is Tayo and what are his earliest memories of his mother?

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

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

6. What does Tayo watch his friends do from a boulder above them?

7. How do Josiah and the boys learn about cattle care?

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

9. Why does Tayo attack Emo?

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

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