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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the old singers send to Descheeny?
(a) Boxes of tobacco
(b) Bottles of liquor
(c) Any animal who is injured
(d) Patients they cannot cure

2. What color of sheets are on the bed at Josiah’s mistress’s home?
(a) Tan
(b) Red
(c) Blue
(d) White

3. When does Lalo retire and close his bar?
(a) After the war
(b) Right before the war starts
(c) He still has the bar
(d) During the war

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

5. Where does Tayo sleep the night when the cowboys let him go?
(a) In a shallow depression covered with leaves
(b) Near the pine tree where he cut the fence
(c) Next to the body of his horse
(d) In a cave

6. What do Robert and Tayo take to Pinkie out at the sheep camp?
(a) Rented movies
(b) Wool blankets
(c) Pinkie’s girl friend
(d) Soda pop and comic books

7. Why is Tayo happy it starts snowing the morning after his encounter with the fence patrol?
(a) It will bring water to the land
(b) He likes it when the land looks new with snow on it
(c) It will mean they will not be able to track him
(d) He will be able to bury himself in the snow to sleep that night

8. What does Tayo feel about the medicine man’s possessions?
(a) There are too few of them
(b) They are holy
(c) They are cast-offs of the white people
(d) They are too disorganized

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

10. Upon what does Harley come riding up when he finds Tayo and asks for a beer?
(a) A motorcycle
(b) A bicycle
(c) A horse
(d) A burro

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

12. What does Tayo do with the heart and liver of the deer?
(a) He wraps them in cheesecloth
(b) He leaves them for the wolves
(c) They eat it raw right out of the body
(d) He puts them into a cooler

13. What does the medicine man tell Tayo is the reason Tayo is having a difficult time getting well?
(a) Tayo does not believe he is sick
(b) Tayo does not want to get well
(c) Forces are trying to keep Tayo from completing the Ceremony
(d) Tayo must forgive himself first

14. What is unusual about the pine tree where Tayo makes a hole in the fence where his cattle are located?
(a) It has been split by lightning
(b) It is bent over so that it top almost touches the ground
(c) It has three trunks
(d) It has grown into one tree with an oak

15. When Tayo and the medicine man leave his home, what is the medicine man riding?
(a) A mule
(b) A burro
(c) An old pinto horse
(d) A palomino

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Betonie’s grandmother thrown out of her village when she was born?

2. What does the medicine man say is the reason new ceremonies need to be created?

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

4. What does the army recruiter tell Tayo and Rocky about joining the military?

5. What kind of hat does Descheeny wear?

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