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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jimmie's birth order?
(a) Middle.
(b) Second youngest.
(c) Youngest.
(d) Eldest.

2. What did Ayah do by signing her name that she didn't realize until later?
(a) She denied permission for Chato to work.
(b) She gave permission for her two children to be adopted.
(c) She denied permission for herself to receive benefits.
(d) She gave permission for her two children to be removed from her care.

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

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

5. What reminds Ayah of tufts of wool at the beginning of the story?
(a) Snow.
(b) Smoke
(c) Flowers.
(d) Yarn.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who are the Yeibechei?

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?

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