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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Japanese soldier kill Rocky?

2. What happens to Harley when he left the sheep he was watching and left his horse tied by the road?

3. What does Harley have in his hand when the friends stop to pick up Tayo who is walking on the side of the road?

4. How does Ts’eh have Tayo’s cattle corralled?

5. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about what witchery does?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tayo and Rocky end up in the military and how do they end up stationed together?

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

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

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

5. How does Tayo prefer to sleep and how does Old Grandma and Robert feel around Tayo?

6. How are the cattle branded and what does Josiah do about that?

7. How is Tayo when the war is over?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This writer, a Native American herself, is communicating a way her own people can adapt to the changes that have taken place and are taking place in their own world while hanging on to their own identity at the same time.

Discuss at least three ways which Silko advocates can help her people adapt to the changes in their culture while continuing to hold onto their own cultural identity. Use examples from Ceremony to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Characters are an important part of what makes Ceremony interesting.

Thoroughly discuss and analyze Tayo. What are his strengths and weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he usually likable? Seldom likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas. Use the same criteria to thoroughly discuss and analyze Auntie and Emo.

Essay Topic 3

Tayo must deal with a lifelong self-concept fostered by Auntie and both the Pueblo Indians and the white people that he is somehow an outcast and unfit because he is neither white nor Indian.

Discuss the ways in which a person might be affected by feeling like he does not fit into any group or culture. Include in the discussion reasons the Indians and the whites might view Tayo as not belonging to their group. Use examples from Ceremony to support your response.

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