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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Standing by the stove in the bar, what does Ayah decide to do?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Pray.
(c) Sing.
(d) Dry her blanket.

3. Where does Ayah remember her mother using the loom?
(a) Beside her grandmother.
(b) Outside their hogan.
(c) Inside their hogan.
(d) Under the shade of a tamarack tree.

4. 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.

5. 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 spun yarn around spindles.
(d) She sheared the sheep.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Ayah enters the bar, what does she neglect to do?

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

3. Why does Ayah visually search every dark place in the bar?

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

5. Why does Chato often disappear at the beginning of the month?

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