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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How did Chato tell Ayah that Jimmie died?
(a) He hugged her.
(b) He wrote it down.
(c) He told her in English.
(d) He used the Navajo word for death.

4. What did Ayah do by signing her name that she didn't realize until later?
(a) She denied permission for herself to receive benefits.
(b) She denied permission for Chato to work.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What branch of the military did Jimmie go into?

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

3. How does Ayah mourn Jimmie?

4. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?

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

(see the answer key)

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