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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does warming herself by the fire make Ayah feel?
2. Standing by the stove in the bar, what does Ayah decide to do?
3. Where did Ayah remember finding Chato passed out at over the many years?
4. Why is Ayah allowed to go into the bar?
5. According to Ayah, what makes the government worker frightened?
Short Essay Questions
1. Ayah states she is frightened by how the doctors look at the children, like lizards watching flies. Why does this metaphor drive home the predator and prey motif?
2. Why does Silko make a point of stating that the white doctors came before they hire Navajo women to go with them as interpreters?
3. What is significant about Chato in his drunken state, telling Ayah, "You know they can't run that ranch without me"?
4. What does Silko mean when she says Ayah carries the pain of "in her belly" and that the pain is fed by everything Ayah sees?
5. Why did Ayah feel relieved that the wine and the government money were gone?
6. What is the purpose of the personification of the "freezing" at the end of the story?
7. What does Ayah mean when she says "they are already being weaned from the lava hills and from this sky"?
8. How does Ayah's fear of the white doctors drive her to give away her children?
9. In what ways is the older Navajo men's warning about language--to learn their language or any of their ways endangers you--borne out throughout the story?
10. Why does Ayah point out that Chato speaks both English and Spanish during the scene with the Army official? Why is this important?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the language of Lullaby lyrical? How does the word choice that Silko uses to tell the story act as a song? Use fact details from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Why does Ayah feel betrayed by Chato, and how does the feeling of betrayal go beyond the loss of her two children? In what other areas of their life together, does Ayah feel Chato had betrayed her and their tribe? Use the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
How do the hills and landscape comfort Ayah when she attempts to escape with the Danny and Ella to the mesa? After they are taken, it is this place Ayah stays. Why? What do the parts of the landscape mean to her? How do they remind her of her children? Use the text to support your answer.
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