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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tayo's heritage?
(a) Cree and Sioux
(b) Anastzia and Pueblo
(c) Luguna and Pueblo
(d) Luguna and a white man

2. Why are some of the cattles’ necks scraped?
(a) Their necks are not messed up
(b) They kept trying to get past the barbed wire
(c) The white people use them for Texas roping
(d) They ran into the walls of the arroyo

3. What is the main thing wrong with white people, according to the creation legend?
(a) They cannot feel the path of light because their aura is too dense
(b) They do not know what happened to their souls
(c) They see only objects and not living creatures or living earth
(d) Their souls separate from their bodies when they are born

4. How does the medicine man Tayo is sent to wear his hair?
(a) It is cut short like the military
(b) It is shoulder length and wavy
(c) In a single braid down his back
(d) Tied in a chongo knot with red yarn

5. Why does Josiah’s mistress leave the village?
(a) She gets married
(b) She dies
(c) She goes home to care for her elderly mother
(d) Josiah dies

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Helen Jean live before she moves to Gallup?

2. What does Tayo tell Betonie about the Ceremony Betonie has performed?

3. To whom does Tayo talk almost incessantly?

4. What is the name of Auntie’s old dog who always ran after female dogs in heat?

5. Who bought the Ford coupe that Tayo’s friends pick him up in to go to the bar?

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