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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 Ayah remember her mother taking her after the birth of her oldest son?
(a) To her hogan for sleep.
(b) To the birthing stone.
(c) To the elder.
(d) To an oracle.

2. As Ayah sits in the snow, what does she think about her shoes?
(a) She thinks she needs to get new ones.
(b) She thinks that her shoes are too large.
(c) She remembers her traditional shoes of moccasins.
(d) She remembers going barefoot in the summer.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?

2. What shocked the visitor about Ayah and Chato's decision about Jimmie's body?

3. What reminds Ayah of tufts of wool at the beginning of the story?

4. According to Ayah, what keeps her people connected to the land?

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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