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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the wet wool smell of her blanket remind Ayah of?
(a) Jimmie.
(b) Life.
(c) Newborn goats.
(d) Sheep.

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

3. In what manner does Ayah conduct herself in the bar?
(a) With sorrow.
(b) With age.
(c) With fear.
(d) With pride.

4. What is trapped in Ayah's hair as she moves through the bar?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Memories.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Melting snow.

5. According to Ayah, what makes the government worker frightened?
(a) Chato's scarred hands.
(b) The foreign items and Navajo language being spoken.
(c) The rural landscape on the reservation.
(d) Ayah's anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What war did Jimmie leave to go fight?

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

3. How did the blond woman behave while Ayah's children were visiting?

4. At the opening of the second section, who is Ayah searching for?

5. Where does Ayah remember her mother using the loom?

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