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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Silko use as a metaphor for the days Ayah and Chato lived together?
(a) Shadows on the mesa.
(b) Painted sheep on hogan walls.
(c) Dirt in the arroyos.
(d) Painted buffalo on cave walls.

2. Over time, what did the visiting children begin to think of Ayah?
(a) They thought she was stupid.
(b) They thought she was just old.
(c) They thought she was crazy.
(d) They thought she was backwards.

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

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

5. As Ayah searches in the night, what does she think about her relationship with Chato?
(a) He is a good husband.
(b) There is no place for him but with her.
(c) He badly hurts her.
(d) He tries, but fails her greatly.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Ayah worked with the wool as a little girl, what did her grandma do?

2. Who is Ayah unable to find in the bar?

3. Why does Ayah go searching in the winter night?

4. What is Jimmie's birth order?

5. In Ayah's memory, what did Chato do the next day, after they returned home from Cebolleta?

(see the answer key)

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