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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Ayah looked at Chato's scarred hands and at his face, what did she think of him?
(a) He was broken.
(b) He worked hard.
(c) He was a stranger.
(d) He was her husband.

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

4. When Danny and Ella came to visit, whom does Ayah remember came with them?
(a) Chato's family.
(b) White women.
(c) Her mother and grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

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

6. What addiction does Chato have?
(a) Peyote.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Nicotine.
(d) Alcoholism.

7. What does Ayah remember happening to Jimmie?
(a) He stopped contacting her.
(b) He moved away.
(c) He never came home.
(d) The earth swallowed him up.

8. Where does Ayah go first on her search?
(a) A ranch.
(b) A barn.
(c) A hogan.
(d) Azzie's Bar.

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

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

11. Ayah remembers doing what to her mother when she knows it is time to give birth to Jimmie?
(a) Whisper.
(b) Hug her.
(c) Reach across the hogan to her.
(d) Cry.

12. What are the first smells that greet Ayah when she opens the door of the bar?
(a) Alcohol and smoke.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Cigarette smoke and warm air.

13. Where does the story take place?
(a) In Navajo Country.
(b) In Taos.
(c) In Phoenix.
(d) In New York.

14. Who came to Ayah's house to discuss news about Jimmie?
(a) A uniformed man dressed in a khaki uniform.
(b) Chato.
(c) A medicine man.
(d) A Navajo man with a government worker.

15. After Ayah enters the bar, what does she neglect to do?
(a) Lower her eyes.
(b) Pay.
(c) Close the door.
(d) Speak to the bartender.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Ayah, what makes the government worker frightened?

2. What did Ayah do to try to prevent the Bureau of Indian Affairs from taking her children?

3. What color was the item Jimmie sent to Ayah?

4. What is trapped in Ayah's hair as she moves through the bar?

5. How did Chato tell Ayah that Jimmie died?

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