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

2. Under what kind of trees at the Y bar does Leroy park?
(a) Maple
(b) Aspen
(c) Elm
(d) Oak

3. What is carved on Ts’eh’s silver buckles on her moccasins?
(a) Cougars
(b) Rainbirds
(c) Cacti
(d) Feathers

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

5. What does Floyd Lee call his miles of barbed wire fencing?
(a) Cattle prod
(b) Wolf-proof fence
(c) Home moat
(d) Indian bait

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Josiah and Robert do to the deer while Rocky is gutting it?

2. What was the blond girl on the calendar in the store holding in her hand?

3. What does Ku'oosh tell Tayo about the world?

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

5. What color of sheets are on the bed at Josiah’s mistress’s home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Rocky end up dead?

3. What does Josiah tell Tayo about the spring and how does Tayo feel about the story?

4. How does Josiah feel about Tayo and how does Josiah treat Tayo?

5. What does Tayo think about the cattle in the book compared to his uncle’s cattle?

6. What does Josiah decide to purchase and who advised him to do it?

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

8. What happens to Tayo after he attacks Emo?

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

10. What is the difference between Tayo’s life as a soldier and his life as a civilian on a reservation?

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