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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who allowed the children to be taken by the B.I.A.?
(a) Chato.
(b) Jimmie.
(c) Danny.
(d) Ayah.

3. What did Jimmie send to Ayah from the war?
(a) Letters written in Navajo.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Postcards.
(d) His army blanket.

4. Who came to Ayah's house to discuss news about Jimmie?
(a) A uniformed man dressed in a khaki uniform.
(b) Chato.
(c) A Navajo man with a government worker.
(d) A medicine man.

5. Where does Ayah remember her mother using the loom?
(a) Beside her grandmother.
(b) Outside their hogan.
(c) Under the shade of a tamarack tree.
(d) Inside their hogan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayah remember is remarkable about elkhide moccasins?

2. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?

3. How does Ayah mourn Jimmie?

4. As Ayah learned the rhythm of her pains while in labor with Jimmie, what did she smell outside the stone hogan?

5. What point of view is the story told from?

(see the answer key)

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