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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What appears at the trading post when Francisco arrives around 1:00 PM?
(a) A parade for the veterans
(b) Bus
(c) The mail
(d) Horse-drawn carriage

2. What is the feast Father Olguin is going to be celebrating as he readies himself for the day?
(a) Saints
(b) Veterans
(c) Poor
(d) Martyrs

3. Reverend John Big Bluff Tosamah is also known as the priest of the __________.
(a) Moon
(b) Water
(c) Sun
(d) Land

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

5. Where is Abel lying prostrate as the prayer meeting is taking place in Los Angeles?
(a) A bathroom
(b) The church
(c) Shallow ditch
(d) His bed

6. What did the female eagle in the mating flight carry in her claws as she flew, dropping it to the male?
(a) Worm
(b) Rattlesnake
(c) Egg
(d) Twigs

7. What was the name of Milly's first husband whom she met when she first arrived at her new home?
(a) Tom
(b) Abel
(c) Matt
(d) Mike

8. Father Olguin dresses in the __________ chasuble while outside people shuffle in the pews.
(a) Green
(b) Scarlet
(c) Blue
(d) White

9. What would Fat Josie give to Abel during visits to the house after his mother died?
(a) Books
(b) Movies
(c) Pictures
(d) Sweets

10. Who cooked for the men after they had completed their work in the box canyon?
(a) Annabelle
(b) Milly
(c) Abel's mom
(d) Francisco's wife

11. What was the name of Milly and her husband's first child after they got married in California?
(a) Felicia
(b) Tammy
(c) Jennifer
(d) Carrie

12. To find his grandmother's grave, Tosamah has to walk along the path of the _______________.
(a) Blue River
(b) Red Road
(c) Yellowstone
(d) Brookstone

13. In the lower meadows of the basin of the Valle Grande, the group of men set about capturing __________.
(a) Each other
(b) Bait
(c) Women
(d) Opposing tribe members

14. The men in the prayer circle with Tosamah smoked and ate _____________.
(a) Tobacco
(b) Marijuana
(c) Peyote buttons
(d) Jimson Weed

15. ____________ father had worked the land for years with little success in doing so.
(a) Vidal's
(b) Abel's
(c) Milly's
(d) Ben's

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Abel came upon a(n) ___________ house, a small tower of stone built around a pit, hollow and open at the top.

3. Who is the old Kiowa woman that Tosamah references in his story during the sermon he is giving?

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

5. The A.A. Kaul _________ Company uses the second floor of Tosamah's building as a storage facility.

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