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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Josiah’s mistress say frightens most people?
(a) Losing one’s identity
(b) Dying of thirst in the desert
(c) Death
(d) Change

2. In one of the poems, who is Reed Woman's sister?
(a) Sand Woman
(b) Tree Woman
(c) Corn Woman
(d) Sky Woman

3. Why did the sergeant from Isleta get a bronze star in the war?
(a) For blowing up a Japanese torpedo boat
(b) For destroying a bunker full of Japanese
(c) For saving the company commander
(d) For infiltrating enemy lines and killing a Japanese general

4. What does Shush, the name of the medicine man’s helper mean in English?
(a) Bear
(b) Fox
(c) Horse
(d) Coyote

5. What do the old Utes say about elevators and juke boxes?
(a) They are not useful
(b) They are evil
(c) They do not exist
(d) They would like to see them some day

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the children call Tayo’s eyes when he was growing up?

2. Who does Tayo keep thinking he sees as being dead?

3. Why does Josiah send Tayo with a note to Josiah’s mistress?

4. What does the medicine man say the white doctors do with the dead in the mental hospitals?

5. How does Ts’eh have Tayo’s cattle corralled?

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