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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ayah remembers what types of items in the black pot that are used for dying wool?
(a) Berries, sage, and beeweed petals.
(b) Ink dyes.
(c) Berries, herbs, and plants.
(d) Flowers.

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

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

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

5. What did Ayah do to try to prevent the Bureau of Indian Affairs from taking her children?
(a) She shot at them with a gun.
(b) She fought them.
(c) She hid them and herself in the hills.
(d) She cursed them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of tree does Ayah sit under as she thinks about her life?

2. What is Jimmie's birth order?

3. Where does Ayah remember her mother using the loom?

4. Where does Ayah remember her mother taking her after the birth of her oldest son?

5. What are the names of Ayah's two children she lost to the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

(see the answer key)

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