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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Upon what does Harley come riding up when he finds Tayo and asks for a beer?
(a) A horse
(b) A burro
(c) A motorcycle
(d) A bicycle
2. What kind and what color of truck does Josiah drive?
(a) A blue GMC
(b) A black Chevy
(c) A white El Camino
(d) A red Ford
3. What does Tayo do when Emo will not leave him alone at the bar?
(a) He calls the police and has them arrest Emo
(b) He hits Harley in the head with a cue stick
(c) He leaves the bar
(d) He shoves a broken beer bottle into Emo’s stomach
4. What does Old Grandma tell Auntie Tayo needs?
(a) A medicine man
(b) A sweat lodge
(c) To return to the war
(d) To get into a good fight
5. What does the medicine man say white people are to witchery?
(a) Tools to be used
(b) Blackness against the light
(c) No different than Indians
(d) Nothing, witchery does not affect white people
6. Where does Tayo want to go when he wakes up crying and dreaming about Josiah?
(a) A cave where he and Rocky used to stay for days at a time
(b) The veteran's hospital
(c) The bar where his mother works
(d) His cousin's old RV out on the edge of the reservation
7. Who bought the Ford coupe that Tayo’s friends pick him up in to go to the bar?
(a) Emo
(b) Leroy
(c) Harley
(d) Tayo
8. What does Tayo feel about the medicine man’s possessions?
(a) They are too disorganized
(b) They are cast-offs of the white people
(c) There are too few of them
(d) They are holy
9. What does Tayo decide to do with the note when the door is not answered?
(a) Tack it to the door frame
(b) Slide it under her door
(c) Tape it to the window
(d) Leave it in the bar
10. How does Harley get a mirror outside the Y bar?
(a) He does not get a mirror
(b) He gets it when the woman who is with them purse breaks open
(c) He finds one in the truck bed
(d) He breaks the one off the truck
11. What kind of job does Helen Jean get in Gallup?
(a) Secretary
(b) Cook
(c) Theater janitor
(d) Waitress
12. What does Tayo find out about cigarette butts when he is a toddler?
(a) They came in different colors
(b) They would come apart if he tugged on them
(c) They could be hot
(d) He would vomit if he ate them
13. Where does Old Grandma sit during the day most of the time?
(a) Under the Elm tree
(b) At the river
(c) In her bedroom
(d) By the stove
14. What does Emo say about the white people as he plays with the Japanese teeth?
(a) It would take five white soldiers to equal one Indian soldier
(b) They are not as fierce as the Japanese
(c) They should have been able to beat the Japanese in one year
(d) They have too much and the Indians should go and take it from them
15. What does Ts’eh serve Tayo for dinner?
(a) Chili
(b) Sweetened yams
(c) Stew
(d) Fried chicken
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Floyd Lee call his miles of barbed wire fencing?
2. What does Tayo tell Betonie about the Ceremony Betonie has performed?
3. What was the blond girl on the calendar in the store holding in her hand?
4. Where does Harley tell Leroy to take Tayo for a cure?
5. What does "she" say is the only cure in the four-line poem, "What She Said"?
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