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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Dawn Runner.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Francisco and Abel went to the ________ where some old people had already gathered and begun to sing.
(a) Middle
(b) Basin
(c) Lower
(d) Upper

2. Francisco thinks back to the time when he participated in a __________ for the good hunting and the harvests.
(a) Spelling bee
(b) Fight
(c) Writing contest
(d) Race

3. In what month did Abel's mother die, even though he had been told all along it was nothing?
(a) October
(b) July
(c) November
(d) June

4. Abel dressed his grandfather in bright ceremonial __________ as he prepared his body.
(a) Bones
(b) Dresses
(c) Boots
(d) Colors

5. Tosamah gives a sermon in the basement of a two-story red brick building in ______________ in which he lives.
(a) Tempe
(b) San Francisco
(c) San Diego
(d) Los Angeles

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the grandmother that Tosamah is telling the story about?

2. There was plenty of excitement at the gathering in January of 1937 as the men shouted and _______________.

3. During what season did Tosamah's grandmother die, according to his story?

4. When Abel and Ben sat on the hill, _______ sang softly the House Made of Dawn.

5. Who is the old man who is driving his team of old mares along the river in a canyon at the beginning?

(see the answer key)

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