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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the grandmother that Tosamah is telling the story about?
(a) Tomasita
(b) Allto
(c) Alo
(d) Aho

2. Abel's final memory before leaving for war was his _____________ crying as he did not understand why Abel wanted to go.
(a) Uncle
(b) Grandfather
(c) Brother
(d) Mother

3. What appeared shortly after Abel began to sin and call out during his time at the small house?
(a) His mother
(b) A vision of his father
(c) Franciso
(d) Pair of eagles

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

5. Who did the Kiowa surrender to, ending their alliance with the answer to #88 after so many years?
(a) US Cavalry
(b) Lakota
(c) Apache
(d) Comanche

6. Abel came upon a(n) ___________ house, a small tower of stone built around a pit, hollow and open at the top.
(a) Eagle hunt
(b) Vision quest
(c) Coyote den
(d) Funeral

7. Abel slept with one of ___________ daughter's, even though she dressed and ran away from him when he wanted her again.
(a) Mariano's
(b) Francisco's
(c) Medina's
(d) Tosamah's

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

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

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

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

12. 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

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

14. Because his father was on outsider, Abel, his brother and his mother were considered to be ____________.
(a) Enemies
(b) Foreign
(c) Family
(d) Strange

15. Who was armed with a shotgun when they decided to go shoot gray geese?
(a) No one
(b) Vidal
(c) Ben
(d) Abel

Short Answer Questions

1. The man who crossed the canyon after four days encountered a man with the feet of a ___________.

2. Reverend John Big Bluff Tosamah is also known as the priest of the __________.

3. When Abel went to look at the bird he caught, helpless in the sack, he felt bad so he __________ it.

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

5. Father Olguin dresses in the __________ chasuble while outside people shuffle in the pews.

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