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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Ayah learned the rhythm of her pains while in labor with Jimmie, what did she smell outside the stone hogan?
(a) Bee flowers blooming and willows.
(b) Frybread.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Dew.

2. Ayah remembers what types of items in the black pot that are used for dying wool?
(a) Berries, herbs, and plants.
(b) Ink dyes.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Berries, sage, and beeweed petals.

3. Where does Chato buy his wine?
(a) From a gas station.
(b) At Azzie's bar.
(c) At the store.
(d) From his friend.

4. Why is Chato permitted in the bars?
(a) Because he is a regular.
(b) Because he is kind.
(c) Because he speaks Spanish like one of them.
(d) Because he has a running tab.

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

6. Who is Ayah unable to find in the bar?
(a) Chato.
(b) The police.
(c) Jimmie.
(d) Her children.

7. What war did Jimmie leave to go fight?
(a) Vietnam War.
(b) Korean War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

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

9. What does Ayah remember is remarkable about elkhide moccasins?
(a) They keep a person's legs warm.
(b) They are handmade.
(c) They are traditional shoes.
(d) They keep a person's legs dry in the snow.

10. Where did Ayah remember finding Chato passed out at over the many years?
(a) On the road.
(b) The bar's wooden steps.
(c) In the arroyo.
(d) On the side of store.

11. What branch of the military did Jimmie go into?
(a) Navy.
(b) Air Force.
(c) Marines.
(d) Army.

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

13. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?
(a) Beautiful son.
(b) Love.
(c) Summer morning.
(d) Brave soldier.

14. At the beginning of the story, where is Ayah sitting?
(a) In the woods.
(b) On the mesa.
(c) Outside her hogan.
(d) The edge of Cebolleta Creek.

15. Why does Ayah visually search every dark place in the bar?
(a) To see if there are other Navajos there.
(b) To see if Chato is sleeping in them.
(c) To see if there is danger.
(d) To see if the place is safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ayah punish Chato for teaching her English and failing to keep her kids from being taken away?

2. Why does Ayah need to warm herself by the fire?

3. After a time, Ayah realized that she could no longer do what with her two remaining children?

4. What season does the setting take place in?

5. As Ayah thinks about her children, she recalls what about them?

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