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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the old man examine when he comes to a stop during his drive of his team of mares?
(a) Car
(b) Box
(c) Tree
(d) Trap

2. What did the man who was sent off by the Kiowas trying to look for?
(a) Other tribes
(b) Weapons
(c) Firewood
(d) Food

3. During what season did Tosamah's grandmother die, according to his story?
(a) Winter
(b) Spring
(c) Fall
(d) Summer

4. Tosamah's grandmother's grave lays at the ________ of the Rainy Mountain.
(a) Middle
(b) Cliff
(c) Top
(d) Base

5. Who was once considered the best long race runner in the region?
(a) Abel
(b) Mariano
(c) Vidal
(d) Francisco

6. Tosamah's grandmother was ____________ eight or ten years after the surrender of the Kiowa.
(a) Born
(b) Married
(c) Dead
(d) Killed

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

8. Who is Abel's brother, who died many years before the start of the story?
(a) Mariano
(b) Vidal
(c) Francisco
(d) Tosamah

9. What is the first job Milly had when she finally moved to the new town after leaving her father's farm?
(a) Cook
(b) Dancer
(c) Waitress
(d) Nanny

10. As pain wracks the body of Abel, he remembers the first time he had fallen from his horse and ___________ could not fix him.
(a) Francisco
(b) His mother
(c) Mariano
(d) Vidal

11. Where does Abel hide when he thinks that men are running toward him after hearing something?
(a) The cave
(b) The nearby brush
(c) The drainage pipe
(d) The tree

12. ____________ testified that Abel killed by an act of imagination so compelling that it was inconceivable.
(a) Father Olguin
(b) Ben Benally
(c) Francisco
(d) Tosamah

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

14. There was plenty of excitement at the gathering in January of 1937 as the men shouted and _______________.
(a) Fired rifles
(b) Fought
(c) Played music
(d) Danced

15. Milly decided to come to ____________ when she had the money from her father and from his hard work.
(a) Mexico
(b) Los Angeles
(c) Chicago
(d) Phoenix

Short Answer Questions

1. Abel keeps himself in the __________ as he makes his way through the city, in order to keep himself hidden.

2. The sermon at the beginning of the chapter is about the __________ and the Truth.

3. What appears at the trading post when Francisco arrives around 1:00 PM?

4. At ___________, Francisco and Abel waited for dawn at the house of Juliano Medina.

5. What is in Abel's mouth the next time he wakes up during his time in the ditch?

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