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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of tree does Ayah sit under as she thinks about her life?
(a) A giving tree.
(b) A redwood.
(c) An oak.
(d) A cottonwood.

2. What are the names of Ayah's two children she lost to the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
(a) Billy and Joe.
(b) Erica and Noemi.
(c) Ella and Danny.
(d) Jimmie and Steve.

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

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

5. Ayah remembers doing what to her mother when she knows it is time to give birth to Jimmie?
(a) Reach across the hogan to her.
(b) Hug her.
(c) Cry.
(d) Whisper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ayah do to try to prevent the Bureau of Indian Affairs from taking her children?

2. As Ayah learned the rhythm of her pains while in labor with Jimmie, what did she smell outside the stone hogan?

3. What is the overall tone of the first half of the story?

4. What does the sound of the wind remind the main character of?

5. What does Ayah remember is remarkable about elkhide moccasins?

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