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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What point of view is the story told from?
(a) Third person ominiscent.
(b) First person.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person limited.

2. While Ayah worked with the wool as a little girl, what did her grandma do?
(a) She spun yarn around spindles.
(b) She sheared the sheep.
(c) She wove the yarn on the loom.
(d) She prayed.

3. Where does Ayah remember her mother using the loom?
(a) Under the shade of a tamarack tree.
(b) Beside her grandmother.
(c) Inside their hogan.
(d) Outside their hogan.

4. Ayah remembers doing what to her mother when she knows it is time to give birth to Jimmie?
(a) Reach across the hogan to her.
(b) Hug her.
(c) Cry.
(d) Whisper.

5. What kind of tree does Ayah sit under as she thinks about her life?
(a) A giving tree.
(b) An oak.
(c) A redwood.
(d) A cottonwood.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ayah punish Chato for teaching her English and failing to keep her kids from being taken away?

2. Whom did the government person talk to about Jimmie's death?

3. As a little girl, what did Ayah do with the raw, washed wool?

4. What happened to all of Ayah's other children?

5. What does the sound of the wind remind the main character of?

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