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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Who came to Ayah's house to discuss news about Jimmie?
(a) A uniformed man dressed in a khaki uniform.
(b) A Navajo man with a government worker.
(c) Chato.
(d) A medicine man.

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

5. What shocked the visitor about Ayah and Chato's decision about Jimmie's body?
(a) Ayah screamed.
(b) That Chato and Ayah did not want it returned to them.
(c) Ayah didn't cry.
(d) Chato cried.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Yeibechei?

2. Who came to tell Ayah that her remaining two children were sick?

3. At the beginning of the story, where is Ayah sitting?

4. Where did Ayah escape to after she lost her last two children?

5. Ayah remembers what types of items in the black pot that are used for dying wool?

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