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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Harley and Tayo pick up a ride after they leave the spring?
(a) At Harley’s house
(b) Nowhere, they are riding
(c) On the Acoma Road
(d) Near the edge of the desert barrio

2. 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

3. What does Ku’oosh smell like?
(a) Vanilla
(b) Mountain laurel and campfire smoke
(c) Lavender
(d) Mutton tallow and sagebrush

4. What does Tayo tell Betonie about the Ceremony Betonie has performed?
(a) Tayo says he wants to pay Betonie for it
(b) Tayo says he believes he is cured
(c) Tayo does not talk to Betonie about the Ceremony
(d) Tayo says it did no good

5. What does the medicine man tell Tayo about the Japanese?
(a) He does not mention the Japanese
(b) They were related to the Indians 30,000 years ago
(c) They are pushed to war by bad spirits
(d) They are part of the white sickness

6. Where does Tayo's mother live?
(a) She is homeless
(b) In an apartment in Gallup
(c) In a house in Santa Fe
(d) In a trailer on the Sioux reservation

7. What does Tayo dream about the night he sleeps with Ts’eh?
(a) His mother
(b) The cattle
(c) The woman
(d) Rocky

8. Where does Ulibarri live?
(a) Magdalena
(b) Las Cruce
(c) San Angelo
(d) El Paso

9. What does Josiah tell Tayo is the reason for droughts?
(a) When people forget and misbehave
(b) The sun has changed its position
(c) The white man abuses the land
(d) The wind is too wild

10. What does Tayo say no one is allowed to do to an invisible one?
(a) Talk to them
(b) Walk with one
(c) Take a picture
(d) Feed them

11. What is the name of the fort that the medicine man’s grandfather did not want to have trouble with?
(a) Ft. Huachuca
(b) Ft. Braden
(c) Ft. Sumter
(d) Ft. San Mateo

12. What is painted on the war shield that is at Tayo’s house when he returns from finding the cattle?
(a) A cave with a spring in it
(b) A night sky with stars
(c) A horse
(d) A Navajo war chief

13. What is Josiah doing when he dies?
(a) He is working on the roof of the house
(b) He is cleaning out the barn
(c) He is searching for the cattle
(d) He is with his mistress

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

15. What does the teacher at the school call the Indian stories about the world?
(a) Truth from a different perspective
(b) Interesting fiction
(c) Superstition
(d) The teacher at a white school does not know the old stories

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of the poems, who is Reed Woman's sister?

2. What does Tayo do right before Rocky begins to dress a deer they killed in a hunt?

3. What does Emo suggests the men do since they fought a white man’s war and still are stuck on a dried up reservation?

4. What does "she" say is the only cure in the four-line poem, "What She Said"?

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

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