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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. What was the number of the all Navajo platoon?

2. In what sports did the older boys have teams?

3. In what Marine platoon was Ned?

4. What type of Indian was Ira Hayes?

5. When Ned joined the Marines, how many other Navajo Indians took the bus from Fort Defiance to Fort Wingate to be sworn in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when John Roanhorse refuses to quick speaking Navajo?

2. How does Ned get into high school, and what good things are there about high school?

3. What did Ned learn about white men in Chapter 10?

4. Why did Navajos have a better chance of getting through boot camp than most white men?

5. What clothes are the Navajo children given when they come to the boarding school?

6. What happened in April of 1942?

7. How does Ned's uncle retell the history about the Navajo and the Mexicans?

8. Why did people in America become worried about the Japanese and Germans in Chapter 6?

9. Where did the idea of using Navajo for a code for battlefield messages come from?

10. Who is Jacob Benally?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Teachers at the boarding school treated the Indian students harshly. How would you describe the way that the teachers at the boarding school treated the Indian students? In what way were they harsh? How were they condescending?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not realistic fiction?

Essay Topic 3

The setting in a book is the place or places where the action takes place. Where does the story take place? Is the setting simply a backdrop to the story and characters or does it take on the role of a character?

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