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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. Where is Abel lying prostrate as the prayer meeting is taking place in Los Angeles?
(a) Shallow ditch
(b) His bed
(c) A bathroom
(d) The church

2. When Abel is 17, Francisco gets him to go hunting and the first animal he kills is a ______________.
(a) Rabbit
(b) Horse
(c) Mule doe
(d) Snake

3. During what month did Tosamah finally visit his grandmother's grave, according to his story?
(a) June
(b) August
(c) January
(d) July

4. Tosamah's grandmother was ____________ eight or ten years after the surrender of the Kiowa.
(a) Dead
(b) Killed
(c) Married
(d) Born

5. Tosamah gives a sermon in the basement of a two-story red brick building in ______________ in which he lives.
(a) San Diego
(b) Los Angeles
(c) Tempe
(d) San Francisco

Short Answer Questions

1. Abel came upon a(n) ___________ house, a small tower of stone built around a pit, hollow and open at the top.

2. What was Abel listening to men do when his grandfather called him to see his dead brother?

3. To find his grandmother's grave, Tosamah has to walk along the path of the _______________.

4. Napoleon Kills-in-the-_____________ is another of the men at the prayer meeting.

5. What did Milly eventually do for her profession, as Abel remembered as he was lying in pain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Francisco try to teach his grandsons when they were out at the old Campo Santo?

2. What did Francisco do after returning to his horses after killing the bear in a sort of rite of passage?

3. Who did not dance when the group of men got together to get drunk the night before Abel's departure?

4. Describe the history of the Kiowa, as Tosamah describes it from his own memory and his own experience.

5. What did Francisco come upon as a young man, riding out on a buckskin colt and leading a hunting horse?

6. What caused Francisco to be afraid during the birth of his child, which then caused his girlfriend to leave him?

7. What happens in the memory Abel has of his grandfather calling him as he heard the old men pray?

8. What were some of the ways Tosamah insulted Abel, even though he did not do so directly?

9. What does Abel do when he sees the bird in the sack after it has been captured?

10. Describe the appearance of Abel when Ben takes him to the bus station at the beginning of the chapter.

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