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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 the overall tone of the first half of the story?
(a) Loss.
(b) Peace.
(c) Joy.
(d) Contentment.

2. At the beginning of the story, where is Ayah sitting?
(a) In the woods.
(b) Outside her hogan.
(c) On the mesa.
(d) The edge of Cebolleta Creek.

3. As a little girl, what did Ayah do with the raw, washed wool?
(a) Pulled the twigs and burrs from it.
(b) Handed it to her mother.
(c) Dyed it.
(d) Passed it to her grandmother.

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

5. What reminds Ayah of tufts of wool at the beginning of the story?
(a) Snow.
(b) Smoke
(c) Flowers.
(d) Yarn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ayah remembers doing what to her mother when she knows it is time to give birth to Jimmie?

2. Who is the main character in the story?

3. While Ayah worked with the wool as a little girl, what did her grandma do?

4. How does Ayah mourn Jimmie?

5. What color was the item Jimmie sent to Ayah?

(see the answer key)

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