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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is the Spanish polka music the only sounds in the bar?
(a) Everyone is dancing.
(b) The bartender orders everyone to silence.
(c) Everyone is silent, watching Ayah.
(d) The bar is empty.

3. When the children visited for the last time, why did Ayah not say goodbye?
(a) Because she forgot.
(b) Because she turned away from them.
(c) Because they didn't say goodbye to her.
(d) Because they didn't understand her.

4. Why does Ayah take care of Chato?
(a) She loves him.
(b) She has children with him.
(c) She feels responsible for him.
(d) She feels it is her duty.

5. Why does Ayah need to warm herself by the fire?
(a) She is angry with Chato.
(b) She is hot from walking.
(c) She wants to give her hands something to do.
(d) She is wet from snow melting.

6. What does the main character wear when thinking of her children?
(a) A swimsuit.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A robe.
(d) A coat.

7. What does the sound of the wind remind the main character of?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A dog.
(c) A lullaby.
(d) The Yeibechei.

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

9. 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.

10. In the present, at the beginning of the second section, where is Ayah?
(a) In the woods.
(b) On the mesa.
(c) In Cebolleta.
(d) At home.

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

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

13. 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) Dew.
(c) Frybread.
(d) Smoke.

14. How did Chato break his leg?
(a) A horse fell on it.
(b) A white man hit him.
(c) He stepped into a hole.
(d) He fell while working.

15. What metaphor does Silko use to compare the snowflakes to as they enter the bar?
(a) Moths.
(b) Flies.
(c) Memories.
(d) Cottonballs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ayah feel Chato did to her by teaching her to sign her name in English?

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

3. What metaphor does the people in the bar's looks compare Ayah to?

4. What are the sounds Ayah hears at the beginning of section two?

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

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