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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chato go to see the postmaster?
(a) To collect their welfare check.
(b) To see his sister.
(c) To mail letters.
(d) To ask for employment.

2. How did Jimmie actually die?
(a) In a car accident.
(b) In a helicopter crash.
(c) Taken hostage and killed.
(d) In a friendly fire.

3. What is the weather doing as Ayah and Chato walk together?
(a) Windy.
(b) Raining.
(c) Sunshining.
(d) Snowing.

4. What does the wet wool smell of her blanket remind Ayah of?
(a) Sheep.
(b) Jimmie.
(c) Life.
(d) Newborn goats.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to Ayah's house to discuss news about Jimmie?

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

3. What metaphor does the people in the bar's looks compare Ayah to?

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

5. What are the names of Ayah's two children she lost to the Bureau of Indian Affairs?

(see the answer key)

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