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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Navajo Indian stand ready to aid and defend the U.S. government and its institutions against all subversion and armed conflict?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1917.

2. Where was the code kept?
(a) Each man had a copy.
(b) Pearl Harbor and Camp Elliott.
(c) Pentagon.
(d) Camp Elliott.

3. In what Marine platoon was Ned?
(a) 303rd.
(b) 219th.
(c) 286th.
(d) 297th.

4. What words would preface messages in Navajo code to alert radio operators that the Navajo were not the enemy?
(a) Utah or Montana.
(b) Colorado or New Mexico.
(c) California or Arizona.
(d) Arizona or New Mexico.

5. During World War I, what Indian languages were used to send messages to confuse the enemy?
(a) Quechua and Guarani.
(b) Cree and Ojibwe.
(c) Cherokee and Chickasaw.
(d) Blackfoot and Apache.

Short Answer Questions

1. What words were like magic when Ned had to deal with teachers?

2. What color dresses are the girls given in Chapter 3?

3. What was the destination of the Long Walk the Navajo had to make?

4. What color hair does the man have who yells at the Navajo children on their first day at boarding school?

5. After the Long Walk, how many winters were the Navajo kept prisoners?

(see the answer key)

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