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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who told Sun Man how to win the clouds back from the Gambler?
(a) Spider Woman
(b) Wolf Pack
(c) Rattlesnake
(d) Crow Man

2. What is the north side of Gallup called?
(a) Little Africa
(b) The Reservation
(c) Sundown
(d) The Freezer

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

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

5. Where does Helen Jean live before she moves to Gallup?
(a) Okwahee
(b) Towac
(c) Mexico
(d) Tako

6. What does Emo suggests the men do since they fought a white man’s war and still are stuck on a dried up reservation?
(a) Rejoin the army
(b) Go to law school and fight the laws
(c) Kill the white president
(d) Get their hands on some white women

7. When Emo is banished from the Pueblo, where does he go?
(a) New York
(b) Mississippi
(c) Newfoundland
(d) California

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

9. What does the medicine man do when Tayo wakes and the medicine man sits down with Tayo?
(a) Tayo does not see the medicine man after the Ceremony
(b) Fills a peace pipe and passes it to Tayo
(c) Rolls a cigarette and smokes
(d) Tayo does not sleep after the Ceremony

10. How does the Japanese soldier kill Rocky?
(a) Shooting him
(b) Stabbing him in the heart
(c) Hitting his head with a rifle butt
(d) Breaking his neck

11. Who does the woman tell Josiah she dances for in the present?
(a) Her grandchildren
(b) Her customers
(c) No one but him
(d) Her husband

12. What is behind the bar at Cerritos?
(a) A large pond
(b) A field of corn
(c) A barrel cactus that is fifteen feet tall
(d) A garage

13. What does Tayo find out about cigarette butts when he is a toddler?
(a) They came in different colors
(b) He would vomit if he ate them
(c) They could be hot
(d) They would come apart if he tugged on them

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

15. Who bought the Ford coupe that Tayo’s friends pick him up in to go to the bar?
(a) Tayo
(b) Emo
(c) Harley
(d) Leroy

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Tayo's mother live?

2. What does the medicine man tell Tayo is the reason Tayo is having a difficult time getting well?

3. What does Emo carry in his little bag?

4. What does Ku'oosh tell Tayo about the world?

5. To whom does Tayo talk almost incessantly?

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