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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one characteristic of Ayah's mother's woven blankets?
(a) They are pretty.
(b) Rain rolls off them.
(c) They are sold for a lot of money.
(d) They are used as rug.

2. What does Ayah remember happening to Jimmie?
(a) The earth swallowed him up.
(b) He stopped contacting her.
(c) He never came home.
(d) He moved away.

3. What shocked the visitor about Ayah and Chato's decision about Jimmie's body?
(a) Ayah didn't cry.
(b) That Chato and Ayah did not want it returned to them.
(c) Ayah screamed.
(d) Chato cried.

4. What does Ayah remember is remarkable about elkhide moccasins?
(a) They are traditional shoes.
(b) They keep a person's legs warm.
(c) They keep a person's legs dry in the snow.
(d) They are handmade.

5. Where were Ayah, Chato and their family living when the government car pulled up outside their home?
(a) A boxcar shack on the white man's ranch.
(b) In a teepee.
(c) In a hogan.
(d) In an apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of Ayah's two children she lost to the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

2. Ayah remembers what types of items in the black pot that are used for dying wool?

3. What is Jimmie's birth order?

4. How does Ayah mourn Jimmie?

5. How did Chato tell Ayah that Jimmie died?

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