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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were Ayah, Chato and their family living when the government car pulled up outside their home?
(a) In an apartment.
(b) A boxcar shack on the white man's ranch.
(c) In a teepee.
(d) In a hogan.

2. At the opening of the second section, who is Ayah searching for?
(a) Danny.
(b) Ella.
(c) Chato.
(d) Jimmie.

3. What is trapped in Ayah's hair as she moves through the bar?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Leaves.
(c) Memories.
(d) Melting snow.

4. Who came to tell Ayah that her remaining two children were sick?
(a) An elder.
(b) The medicine man.
(c) Chato.
(d) A white doctor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one characteristic of Ayah's mother's woven blankets?

2. Ayah remembers that when Ella came to visit, she used to____.

3. In the present, at the beginning of the second section, where is Ayah?

4. Why is the Spanish polka music the only sounds in the bar?

5. What does the main character wear when thinking of her children?

(see the answer key)

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