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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What season does the setting take place in?
(a) Fall.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

2. Where did Ayah escape to after she lost her last two children?
(a) The medicine man.
(b) Her mother's.
(c) A hogan.
(d) The hills.

3. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?
(a) Brave soldier.
(b) Love.
(c) Summer morning.
(d) Beautiful son.

4. Whom did the government person talk to about Jimmie's death?
(a) Chato.
(b) The white rancher.
(c) Ayah's mother.
(d) Ayah.

5. What did Ayah do by signing her name that she didn't realize until later?
(a) She denied permission for Chato to work.
(b) She denied permission for herself to receive benefits.
(c) She gave permission for her two children to be removed from her care.
(d) She gave permission for her two children to be adopted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Yeibechei?

2. What reminds Ayah of tufts of wool at the beginning of the story?

3. Where does Ayah remember her mother using the loom?

4. How did Chato tell Ayah that Jimmie died?

5. Where does the story take place?

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