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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?
(a) Love.
(b) Beautiful son.
(c) Brave soldier.
(d) Summer morning.

2. What happened to all of Ayah's other children?
(a) They moved away.
(b) They died of tuberculosis.
(c) They got the measles.
(d) They stayed at relatives.

3. According to Ayah, what keeps her people connected to the land?
(a) Farming.
(b) Singing.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Weaving.

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

5. How did Chato break his leg?
(a) A horse fell on it.
(b) He stepped into a hole.
(c) He fell while working.
(d) A white man hit him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does remembering make Ayah feel?

2. Where does the story take place?

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

4. Who came to tell Ayah that her remaining two children were sick?

5. How does Ayah mourn Jimmie?

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