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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of tool does Tayo carry with him when he is looking for the cattle?
(a) Roofing hatchet
(b) Hunting knife
(c) Fencing pliers
(d) Wire dykes

2. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about who the medicine man’s grandmother was?
(a) She was a Navajo
(b) She was a Mexican with green eyes
(c) He did not know his grandmother
(d) She was white

3. How many years has it been dry since Tayo prayed the rain away?
(a) 6
(b) 0
(c) 1
(d) 15

4. What does the medicine man say the white doctors do with the dead in the mental hospitals?
(a) Dissect them
(b) Bury them
(c) Keep them in a room and talk to them
(d) Burn them

5. What does Harley have in his hand when the friends stop to pick up Tayo who is walking on the side of the road?
(a) A camera
(b) A gun
(c) Two cold beers
(d) Two bottles of Garden Deluxe Tokay

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the poem "Ceremony" at the beginning of the book, what tries to destroy the stories?

2. Where is Tayo's father from?

3. How did white people come to be, according to the medicine man?

4. When Emo is banished from the Pueblo, where does he go?

5. What animal does Tayo see as he is laying in the pine needles where he fell while looking for the cattle inside the fence?

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