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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the story take place?
(a) In Taos.
(b) In Phoenix.
(c) In New York.
(d) In Navajo Country.

2. Who came to tell Ayah that her remaining two children were sick?
(a) A white doctor.
(b) The medicine man.
(c) Chato.
(d) An elder.

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

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

5. What branch of the military did Jimmie go into?
(a) Navy.
(b) Air Force.
(c) Marines.
(d) Army.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?

3. Who is the main character in the story?

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

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

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