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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. According to Ayah's memory, what would have happened to her if she entered the bar years ago?
2. Ayah remembers that when Ella came to visit, she used to____.
3. What are the first smells that greet Ayah when she opens the door of the bar?
4. What did Ayah feel Chato did to her by teaching her to sign her name in English?
5. The last time Ayah met with her children, how did Ella stare at her?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Ayah find peace in the fear stained air of Azzie's Bar?
2. What is the purpose of Ayah remembering Jimmie's birth in the opening scene?
3. Why was Ayah satisfied when the white rancher fires Chato and evicted them from the shack?
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. What does Jimmie's true Navajo name being reduced to something as common as "Jimmie" in English say about the white man?
6. What is the significance of the doctors returning the next day with a police officer?
7. What is the purpose of the personification of the "freezing" at the end of the story?
8. Why was Ayah proud while amongst the men in the bar?
9. Why didn't Ayah mourn Jimmie's death when she first hears the news?
10. How is losing Danny and Ella "worse than if they died" to Ayah?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the impact of the wars on especially Ayah? Does she understand the meaning of the war beyond her grief? Why does she not believe the war has anything to do with her or her people? Use the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
How are the traditional ways of the Navajo people personified in Lullaby? How does Silko incorporate and weave these traditions into the text of the story and how do those traditions affect the protagonist, Ayah? Use the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Ayah states that the Navajo elders advise against learning the white man's language or his ways for it endangers them. How does Ayah's life story of tragedy at the hands of white prove the validity of this statement? In what ways does Chato embody that danger the elders warn about? Use the text to support your answer.
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