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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ceremony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Tayo when his mother leaves him?
(a) Six
(b) Four
(c) Five
(d) Two

2. What was wrong with the wool blankets the army gave the Indians in the 1800’s?
(a) They were more cotton than wool
(b) They were infected with smallpox
(c) They were all green
(d) They were moth eaten

3. What did the children call Tayo’s eyes when he was growing up?
(a) White man’s eyes
(b) Mexican eyes
(c) Bedroom eyes
(d) Wimp eyes

4. Why does the Helen Jean leave the bar?
(a) Her brother came to get her
(b) She is interested in a Mexican man there
(c) She does not like the atmosphere
(d) She has to go meet her sister

5. What are the two names that all of creation is said to have in modern times?
(a) Mundane and ceremonial
(b) Old and new
(c) Indian and white
(d) Spiritual and material

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about the Japanese?

2. What does Tayo dream about the night he sleeps with Ts’eh?

3. Why does Auntie always watch Tayo more closely than Rocky when they were growing up?

4. What does Ku’oosh smell like?

5. What happens to the willows in the arroyo?

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