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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1, The Longhair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Abel went to look at the bird he caught, helpless in the sack, he felt bad so he __________ it.
(a) Ate
(b) Freed
(c) Suffocated
(d) Loosened

2. After Abel talked to the chief, _____________, about the mating flight he had seen, it was decided he should join them in the kiva.
(a) Patiestewa
(b) Mariano
(c) Francisco
(d) Medina

3. Where were the governor and the officials sitting, making those the places of honor in the group?
(a) In the air conditioned warehouse
(b) Near the trees
(c) Under umbrellas
(d) In the sun

4. What is the profession of the husband of Mrs. Martin St. John as is revealed when she speaks to Father?
(a) Lawyer
(b) Store owner
(c) Doctor
(d) Banker

5. Abel heard the sound of the ____________ and it filled him with a particular kind of dread that remained with him throughout his days.
(a) Death
(b) Water
(c) Wind
(d) Storms

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Abel's brother, who died many years before the start of the story?

3. When Abel is 17, Francisco gets him to go hunting and the first animal he kills is a ______________.

4. Vidal and Abel came back to the box canyon to watch their grandfather dig with a __________.

5. When he left, Abel remembered too late to look back in the direction of ___________.

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