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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 tell Ku'oosh about Tayo’s experience in the war?
(a) He watched his best friend die
(b) He killed too many innocent people
(c) He refuses to talk about the war at all
(d) He never killed one enemy

2. What does the medicine man say white people are to witchery?
(a) Nothing, witchery does not affect white people
(b) Blackness against the light
(c) Tools to be used
(d) No different than Indians

3. What do the doctors say is the cause of battle fatigue?
(a) Malnourishment
(b) The noise of gunfire and bombs
(c) They do not know what causes it
(d) Seeing others killed

4. What does Emo suggests the men do since they fought a white man’s war and still are stuck on a dried up reservation?
(a) Go to law school and fight the laws
(b) Kill the white president
(c) Rejoin the army
(d) Get their hands on some white women

5. Who told Sun Man how to win the clouds back from the Gambler?
(a) Wolf Pack
(b) Rattlesnake
(c) Spider Woman
(d) Crow Man

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Josiah tell Tayo is the reason for droughts?

3. What kind of job does Helen Jean get in Gallup?

4. In what three colors does the medicine man paint paw prints next to bear footprints?

5. What does Ku'oosh place on Tayo’s stomach before he leaves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Tayo feel guilty about Josiah?

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

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

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

7. What does Ku'oosh say to Tayo after Tayo talks to Ku'oosh and what does Ku'oosh leave Tayo? What is Tayo’s response?

8. What does Tayo do when his friends leave in the morning what does he come to realize?

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

10. Why does Tayo’s aunt dislike Tayo and Tayo’s mother?

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