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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tayo do right before Rocky begins to dress a deer they killed in a hunt?
(a) Start crying
(b) Walks away
(c) Pulls up long grass and covers the deer’s head
(d) Covers the deer’s head with his jacket

2. Where did the medicine man first go to school?
(a) Riverside, Ca
(b) Salt Lake City
(c) Tahoe
(d) Gallup

3. What does Tayo's sergeant tell the men to do that Tayo is unable to do?
(a) Beat up another American soldier
(b) Kill young children
(c) Bury evidence
(d) Kill unarmed Japanese prisoners

4. Who goes to church on Sundays with Auntie?
(a) No one
(b) Josiah
(c) Old Grandma
(d) The children

5. What is the medicine man’s residence called?
(a) A teepee
(b) A larga
(c) A hogan
(d) He lives in a cave

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Sun Man how to win the clouds back from the Gambler?

2. Where does Tayo want to go when he wakes up crying and dreaming about Josiah?

3. Who is Descheeny married to when he brings a Mexican girl to his home?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tayo first do when he leaves Betonie?

2. What does Josiah decide to purchase and who advised him to do it?

3. Why does Tayo feel guilty about Josiah?

4. What is the difference between Tayo’s life as a soldier and his life as a civilian on a reservation?

5. How does Josiah’s sister feel about Night Swan?

6. What does Tayo’s mother do with him when he is four?

7. What does Betonie show Tayo about his illness and how it is related to white people?

8. What does Tayo tell Ku'oosh about the war and about the drought?

9. What does the herd of cattle do as soon as they are unloaded and what does Josiah tell Tayo about their behavior?

10. Where does Tayo spend the night on the day he finds the cattle and who does he see when he wakes?

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