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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color was the hair of the Solomon Islanders because they dyed it with lime juice?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

2. Who does Ned's uncle say made the final war against the Navajos?
(a) Col. Edwin Sumner.
(b) James H. Carleton.
(c) Kit Carson.
(d) Manuel Antonio Chaves.

3. When did Ned's training end?
(a) May 1943.
(b) July 1943.
(c) August 1943.
(d) June 1943.

4. What did Ned always carry with him and used when he greeted the dawn?
(a) Corn pollen.
(b) Bee pollen.
(c) Abalone.
(d) Turquoise.

5. In Chapter 12, what was the second type of rifle that Ned and the others were issued?
(a) M1903.
(b) Winchester 1897.
(c) Winchester 1912.
(d) M-1.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, what did Ned do between the time between the noon meal and the evening when the Blessingway ceremony began?

2. How far did Gene-Gene, sort of a chief of the Solomon Islanders, swim through shark- and crocodile-infested waters to tell an American Ranger squad where the Japanese were?

3. How many white men did Major Shannon try to have become code talkers?

4. What was the name of Ned's sixth grade teacher who said he would never go anywhere and would only ever herd sheep?

5. How many inches long were the bayonets the rifles Ned and other carried in Chapter 12?

(see the answer key)

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