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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of Ayah's two children she lost to the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
(a) Jimmie and Steve.
(b) Billy and Joe.
(c) Erica and Noemi.
(d) Ella and Danny.

2. What did Ayah do by signing her name that she didn't realize until later?
(a) She denied permission for herself to receive benefits.
(b) She gave permission for her two children to be adopted.
(c) She denied permission for Chato to work.
(d) She gave permission for her two children to be removed from her care.

3. What metaphor does the people in the bar's looks compare Ayah to?
(a) A spider.
(b) A goddess.
(c) An animal.
(d) A cockroach.

4. When Danny and Ella came to visit, whom does Ayah remember came with them?
(a) Chato's family.
(b) Her mother and grandmother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) White women.

5. As Ayah learned the rhythm of her pains while in labor with Jimmie, what did she smell outside the stone hogan?
(a) Frybread.
(b) Dew.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Bee flowers blooming and willows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What war did Jimmie leave to go fight?

2. Why do Ayah and Chato perform the traditional actions every May?

3. Where does Ayah remember her mother using the loom?

4. What does Jimmie's Navajo name mean?

5. Why doesn't Ayah's and Chato's garden produce food?

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