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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 do when Tayo wakes and the medicine man sits down with Tayo?
(a) Rolls a cigarette and smokes
(b) Tayo does not see the medicine man after the Ceremony
(c) Fills a peace pipe and passes it to Tayo
(d) Tayo does not sleep after the Ceremony

2. What does Harley say riding in the truck at top speed is better than?
(a) Warm apple pie with vanilla ice cream
(b) Taking the roller coaster in Atlantic City
(c) Carnival rides at the Laguna festival
(d) A six pack of cold beer

3. What is the police’s response to the woman with the reddish hair’s behavior?
(a) They arrest the woman
(b) They take everyone in the arroyo away and tear down the shelters
(c) They arrest the white men who are harassing the women
(d) Nothing, they are not involved

4. What does Old Grandma tell Auntie Tayo needs?
(a) A sweat lodge
(b) To return to the war
(c) A medicine man
(d) To get into a good fight

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ts’eh have Tayo’s cattle corralled?

2. Why does the Helen Jean leave the bar?

3. With what were the walls of the Ts’eh’s cabin plastered?

4. What is the medicine man’s residence called?

5. Why does Josiah’s mistress leave the village?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where are Tayo and Rocky sent, what kind of problem does Tayo have there and what does Rocky do to try and help Tayo?

3. Where does Tayo find the cattle?

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where does Tayo end up finding the cattle again with the man’s help?

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

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