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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where were Ayah, Chato and their family living when the government car pulled up outside their home?
(a) In a hogan.
(b) In an apartment.
(c) A boxcar shack on the white man's ranch.
(d) In a teepee.

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

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

5. What did Jimmie send to Ayah from the war?
(a) His army blanket.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Postcards.
(d) Letters written in Navajo.

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

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

8. Where does Ayah remember her mother taking her after the birth of her oldest son?
(a) To an oracle.
(b) To her hogan for sleep.
(c) To the birthing stone.
(d) To the elder.

9. What season does the setting take place in?
(a) Winter.
(b) Spring.
(c) Summer.
(d) Fall.

10. How does Ayah mourn Jimmie?
(a) That night.
(b) Over time.
(c) At once.
(d) With angry words.

11. What kind of tree does Ayah sit under as she thinks about her life?
(a) A giving tree.
(b) A cottonwood.
(c) A redwood.
(d) An oak.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the main character wear when thinking of her children?

2. What war did Jimmie leave to go fight?

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

4. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?

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

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