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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Chato permitted in the bars?
(a) Because he is kind.
(b) Because he is a regular.
(c) Because he speaks Spanish like one of them.
(d) Because he has a running tab.

2. After Ayah enters the bar, what does she neglect to do?
(a) Close the door.
(b) Speak to the bartender.
(c) Lower her eyes.
(d) Pay.

3. What are the sounds Ayah hears at the beginning of section two?
(a) Chato's cries.
(b) Silence.
(c) People arguing.
(d) Dogs barking.

4. What does Ayah believe the people in the bar feel about her being in the bar?
(a) They are angry.
(b) They are afraid.
(c) They are nervous.
(d) They are anxious.

5. As Ayah learned the rhythm of her pains while in labor with Jimmie, what did she smell outside the stone hogan?
(a) Bee flowers blooming and willows.
(b) Frybread.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Dew.

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

7. When Ayah enters the bar, what do the men do to her?
(a) They ignore her.
(b) They stare at her.
(c) They laugh at her.
(d) They help her search.

8. What did Ayah feel Chato did to her by teaching her to sign her name in English?
(a) Made her smarter.
(b) Betrayed her.
(c) Hurt her.
(d) Confused her.

9. What affliction does Chato suffer from because of his old age?
(a) Dementia.
(b) Brittle bones.
(c) Fatigue.
(d) Ulcer.

10. What addiction does Chato have?
(a) Peyote.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Nicotine.
(d) Alcoholism.

11. Where does Chato buy his wine?
(a) At the store.
(b) From his friend.
(c) From a gas station.
(d) At Azzie's bar.

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

13. What is located at the far corner of the bar?
(a) A wood stove.
(b) A vending machine.
(c) A pool table.
(d) A bathroom.

14. Why does Ayah need to warm herself by the fire?
(a) She is wet from snow melting.
(b) She is angry with Chato.
(c) She is hot from walking.
(d) She wants to give her hands something to do.

15. Who came to Ayah's house to discuss news about Jimmie?
(a) Chato.
(b) A Navajo man with a government worker.
(c) A uniformed man dressed in a khaki uniform.
(d) A medicine man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What languages does Chato speak?

2. What point of view is the story told from?

3. What is the overall tone of the first half of the story?

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

5. When Danny and Ella came to visit, whom does Ayah remember came with them?

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