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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. With what does the medicine man cut Tayo’s head?
(a) His pocketknife
(b) A broken bottle
(c) His hunting knife
(d) A piece of flint

2. What does Tayo eat as he is walking back to Ts’eh’s house?
(a) Gum drops
(b) Beef jerky
(c) Nothing
(d) Pinon nuts

3. Who does Tayo keep thinking he sees as being dead?
(a) His mother
(b) A yellow-stripped cat
(c) Josiah
(d) Rocky

4. Why does Auntie always watch Tayo more closely than Rocky when they were growing up?
(a) Tayo always need more attention
(b) Rocky was her own son and she had to raise him
(c) Rocky was innately good
(d) Tayo had a more promising future

5. How do the living animals feel about witches?
(a) They are terrified of them
(b) They love them
(c) They are curious about them
(d) They cannot recognize them

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the medicine man that Ku'oosh wants Tayo to see?

2. What does the army recruiter tell Tayo and Rocky about joining the military?

3. To what tribe do the two Indians belong who get coins from Tayo when he and Robert are on the bridge?

4. What does Tayo do with the heart and liver of the deer?

5. How many years has it been dry since Tayo prayed the rain away?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the family’s shepherd, Harley, the dog and the sheep?

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

3. How does a woman help Tayo find the cattle?

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

5. What are Tayo’s symptoms after he leaves the hospital and how does a Japanese person help him?

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

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

8. How is Rocky different from Tayo and what does Rocky want to do when he is an adult?

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

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

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