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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did the government person talk to about Jimmie's death?
(a) The white rancher.
(b) Chato.
(c) Ayah.
(d) Ayah's mother.

2. What happened to all of Ayah's other children?
(a) They died of tuberculosis.
(b) They stayed at relatives.
(c) They moved away.
(d) They got the measles.

3. When the children visited for the last time, why did Ayah not say goodbye?
(a) Because they didn't say goodbye to her.
(b) Because they didn't understand her.
(c) Because she turned away from them.
(d) Because she forgot.

4. In the present, at the beginning of the second section, where is Ayah?
(a) On the mesa.
(b) At home.
(c) In Cebolleta.
(d) In the woods.

5. Where does Chato get the items in the big brown box?
(a) Welfare.
(b) The medicine man.
(c) His sister.
(d) The white man's ranch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chato bring home in big brown boxes?

2. As Ayah learned the rhythm of her pains while in labor with Jimmie, what did she smell outside the stone hogan?

3. How does remembering make Ayah feel?

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

5. What does the wet wool smell of her blanket remind Ayah of?

(see the answer key)

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