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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Ayah worked with the wool as a little girl, what did her grandma do?
(a) She spun yarn around spindles.
(b) She sheared the sheep.
(c) She wove the yarn on the loom.
(d) She prayed.

2. Over time, what did the visiting children begin to think of Ayah?
(a) They thought she was stupid.
(b) They thought she was crazy.
(c) They thought she was backwards.
(d) They thought she was just old.

3. What point of view is the story told from?
(a) Second person.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) Third person ominiscent.
(d) First person.

4. Ayah remembers doing what to her mother when she knows it is time to give birth to Jimmie?
(a) Cry.
(b) Hug her.
(c) Whisper.
(d) Reach across the hogan to her.

5. During the last visit with the children, what did Danny struggle to do with Ayah?
(a) Hug.
(b) Work.
(c) Speak Navajo.
(d) Play.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Danny and Ella came to visit, whom does Ayah remember came with them?

2. What shocked the visitor about Ayah and Chato's decision about Jimmie's body?

3. Who is the main character in the story?

4. How did Chato break his leg?

5. According to Ayah, what makes the government worker frightened?

(see the answer key)

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