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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Ayah remembers that when Ella came to visit, she used to____.
(a) Nuzzle close to her like she does when she is a baby.
(b) Hide behind the white man.
(c) Hide behind the white woman.
(d) Sit down by the fire.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who allowed the children to be taken by the B.I.A.?

2. At the beginning of the second section, what is the weather doing?

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

4. Where did Ayah escape to after she lost her last two children?

5. What is Jimmie's birth order?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about Chato in his drunken state, telling Ayah, "You know they can't run that ranch without me"?

2. Why did Ayah believe Chato is a stranger?

3. Why is it important for Ayah to remember that her mother's blankets are soft and woven so tight that rain rolls off of them?

4. When Ayah openly accuses the whites of lying, why does Chato's words, "It's too late now", symbolic of the white and Native American relationships of the past?

5. Why was Ayah proud while amongst the men in the bar?

6. Why does Silko make a point of stating that the white doctors came before they hire Navajo women to go with them as interpreters?

7. What does Ayah recognize about Chato's drinking?

8. What does Ayah's walk back to the bar symbolize?

9. How did the environment of the hills take away Ayah's and the children's fear and anger?

10. What does the description of the place where Ayah, Chato and the children live on the white man's ranch reveal about their living conditions?

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