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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the medicine man first go to school?

2. Who goes to church on Sundays with Auntie?

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

4. What does Helen Jean do for a living in her hometown before she moves to Gallup?

5. Where does Harley tell Leroy to take Tayo for a cure?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Josiah tell Tayo about the spring and how does Tayo feel about the story?

3. What does Ku'oosh say to Tayo after Tayo talks to Ku'oosh and what does Ku'oosh leave Tayo? What is Tayo’s response?

4. What do Tayo’s friends do when they come again and what does he do first?

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

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

7. What happens when Tayo is knocked unconscious and then wakes?

8. Who is Night Swan and how does she know Josiah?

9. What does Betonie do when he takes Tayo up into the foothills? How does Tayo respond?

10. How is Tayo when the war is over?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Ku'oosh comes to Tayo, he brings medicines — the Indian tea and the blue corn, but he also brings stories, another form of medicine.

Discuss why stories might help a person dealing with mental or emotional agony. What are two stories Tayo is told and how do you think they related to his situation?

Essay Topic 2

In the various sexual encounters in the story, we see that Indian attitudes about morality and behavior that are different from that of the white culture.

Compare and contrast the differences between Indian and white culture’s attitudes towards morality and behavior. Use examples from Ceremony to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

The world of the battlefield was the most hostile and threatening of all the experiences in his life. Some men seem to survive these horrors while moving on and making lives for themselves, while others are emotionally unable to cope, and Tayo was one of the latter.

How do you think Tayo’s early life might have affected his response to the battle field? Why might his reactions to battle be considered a weakness to some people? Why are his reactions not a weakness? Use examples from Ceremony to support your response.

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