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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Chato often disappear at the beginning of the month?
(a) He cashes their welfare check and buys groceries.
(b) He cashes their welfare check and puts it in the bank.
(c) He cashes their welfare check and splits it with Ayah.
(d) He cashes their welfare check and drinks alcohol.

3. Why does the air burn Ayah's lungs while she walks?
(a) She smoked.
(b) She's tired.
(c) She had asthma.
(d) The snow was deep.

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

5. How long did Ayah cook Chato's meals and smile at him?
(a) 25.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 35.

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

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

8. What did Ayah do to try to prevent the Bureau of Indian Affairs from taking her children?
(a) She cursed them.
(b) She shot at them with a gun.
(c) She fought them.
(d) She hid them and herself in the hills.

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

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

11. As a little girl, what did Ayah do with the raw, washed wool?
(a) Dyed it.
(b) Pulled the twigs and burrs from it.
(c) Passed it to her grandmother.
(d) Handed it to her mother.

12. What metaphor does the people in the bar's looks compare Ayah to?
(a) A goddess.
(b) A spider.
(c) An animal.
(d) A cockroach.

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

14. Standing by the stove in the bar, what does Ayah decide to do?
(a) Dry her blanket.
(b) Pray.
(c) Sing.
(d) Sleep.

15. Who allowed the children to be taken by the B.I.A.?
(a) Ayah.
(b) Jimmie.
(c) Chato.
(d) Danny.

Short Answer Questions

1. What languages does Chato speak?

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

3. Ayah remembers that when Ella came to visit, she used to____.

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

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

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