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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Silko use as a metaphor for the days Ayah and Chato lived together?
(a) Painted sheep on hogan walls.
(b) Dirt in the arroyos.
(c) Painted buffalo on cave walls.
(d) Shadows on the mesa.

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

3. Why is Ayah allowed to go into the bar?
(a) She is a woman.
(b) She is Navajo.
(c) She is old.
(d) She is smart.

4. Who are the Yeibechei?
(a) The elders.
(b) Ayah's relatives.
(c) Another Native American tribe.
(d) Navajo holy people.

5. Why do Ayah and Chato perform the traditional actions every May?
(a) Because it helps Ayah heal.
(b) It helps them remember Jimmie.
(c) Because it is a habit for them.
(d) Because it is time to do it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is special about Ayah's and Chato's home?

2. What are the components of a hogan?

3. When the children visited for the last time, why did Ayah not say goodbye?

4. Where were Ayah, Chato and their family living when the government car pulled up outside their home?

5. After Chato's return with the brown box, what does he do the first of every month?

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