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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) She ignores them
(b) Shoots one with her bow
(c) Throws the bottles back at the white men and curses them
(d) Kicks one of them in the groin

2. What does Josiah tell Tayo is the reason for droughts?
(a) When people forget and misbehave
(b) The white man abuses the land
(c) The sun has changed its position
(d) The wind is too wild

3. What kind of trees do the people from the villages use for carving?
(a) Maple
(b) Cottonwood
(c) Black walnut
(d) Oak

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does medicine man say deeds and titles mean nothing to Mount Taylor?

2. What does Emo carry in his little bag?

3. Why does Tayo suddenly tell Rocky he cannot go to the army?

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

5. What does Tayo say one has to know in order to get to the moon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Betonie show Tayo about his illness and how it is related to white people?

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 does Old Grandma do with Tayo, what does he think he needs to do and what does she want him to do?

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

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

7. What does Ku'oosh talk to Tayo about?

8. How does Rocky’s mother feel about him going off to war and what does Tayo tell her?

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

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

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