Ceremony Test | Final Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 150 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Ceremony Test | Final Test - Hard

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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. To what tribe do the two Indians belong who get coins from Tayo when he and Robert are on the bridge?

2. Why does Tayo think that white people have nothing?

3. What animal went to the mother of the people during a drought and asked forgiveness for the people?

4. What does the medicine man tell Tayo to do after they walk Tayo through the Ceremony?

5. Who can help the man who believes he is a coyote, according to Indian legend?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are the cattle branded and what does Josiah do about that?

3. What does Tayo watch his friends do from a boulder above them?

4. Who are the family members who are kind to Tayo?

5. Of what does Tayo dream as he and Robert prepare for winter? What does Tayo decide to do because of the dreams?

6. How does Rocky and Auntie feel about Josiah’s decision on how to take care of the cattle?

7. What are Tayo’s symptoms after he leaves the hospital and how does a Japanese person help him?

8. How is Tayo when the war is over?

9. Why does Tayo attack Emo?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tayo's friends are bewitched and dangerous. He must separate himself from them, and his attempts to do so almost get him killed. They cannot deal with his increasing understanding, so they must kill him.

Discuss why Tayo’s friends are threatened by Tayo’s continual walk towards mental health and why his change might make them feel threatened. Use examples from Ceremony to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

One of the themes of the story is that white people are alien, they are not superior, as is commonly thought, and do not dictate cultural morés to the Native Americans.

Discuss the reasons the Indians might have viewed white people as alien or strange and how some of that viewpoint changed during the course of Ceremony. Use examples from Ceremony to support your response.

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