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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. Who is Descheeny married to when he brings a Mexican girl to his home?
(a) Three sisters
(b) A Navajo medicine woman
(c) Twins
(d) A white woman

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

3. What does Tayo do when he goes into the corn field one night?
(a) Strips the corn from the plants
(b) Smashes the melons growing there
(c) Lays down to watch the corn above him
(d) Draws a crop circle

4. How did white people come to be, according to the medicine man?
(a) A white god from another universe placed them on the earth
(b) They were created by Indian witchery
(c) They were all born at the same time but took different paths through evolution
(d) The Great Spirit created them to teach Indians courage

5. Why does Auntie keep Josiah very busy?
(a) So he will not drink alcoholic drinks
(b) She does not keep him busy
(c) So he will be too tired to date
(d) So he cannot go to Cubero

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does Harley come riding up when he finds Tayo and asks for a beer?

2. What color is the beard of the store keeper where Tayo tries to buy some candy?

3. What did the children call Tayo’s eyes when he was growing up?

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

5. What is Tayo watching from the cab of the truck as he is riding with Leroy and Harley?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rocky end up dead?

2. 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?

3. What does Tayo remember about Josiah and Night Swan?

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

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

6. What does Tayo do with his memories of Night Swan and Josiah?

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

8. What does the woman tell Tayo when she sees him again and what is his response?

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

10. What happens when Tayo is knocked unconscious and then wakes?

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