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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 hogan.
(c) In an apartment.
(d) In a teepee.

2. As Ayah learned the rhythm of her pains while in labor with Jimmie, what did she smell outside the stone hogan?
(a) Dew.
(b) Bee flowers blooming and willows.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Frybread.

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

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

5. How did Ayah punish Chato for teaching her English and failing to keep her kids from being taken away?
(a) She moved out.
(b) She distanced herself from him.
(c) She cursed him.
(d) She slapped him.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the main character wear when thinking of her children?

4. Where did Ayah escape to after she lost her last two children?

5. At the beginning of the story, where is Ayah sitting?

(see the answer key)

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