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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Ayah studies the faces in the bar, whom do they remind her of?
(a) The white people who brought her children back.
(b) The white people who owned the post office.
(c) The white people who owned the ranch.
(d) The white people wh took her children.

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

3. According to Ayah, what makes the government worker frightened?
(a) Chato's scarred hands.
(b) The foreign items and Navajo language being spoken.
(c) Ayah's anger.
(d) The rural landscape on the reservation.

4. What war did Jimmie leave to go fight?
(a) Korean War.
(b) World War II.
(c) Vietnam War.
(d) World War I.

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

6. Who is Ayah unable to find in the bar?
(a) Her children.
(b) The police.
(c) Jimmie.
(d) Chato.

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

8. How did Chato break his leg?
(a) He fell while working.
(b) He stepped into a hole.
(c) A white man hit him.
(d) A horse fell on it.

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

10. Who is the main character in the story?
(a) Ayah.
(b) Chato.
(c) Ella.
(d) Jimmie.

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

12. After a time, Ayah realized that she could no longer do what with her two remaining children?
(a) Hug them.
(b) See them.
(c) Visit them.
(d) Speak Navajo with them.

13. According to Ayah, what keeps her people connected to the land?
(a) Singing.
(b) Farming.
(c) Weaving.
(d) Dancing.

14. What did Ayah do by signing her name that she didn't realize until later?
(a) She gave permission for her two children to be adopted.
(b) She denied permission for herself to receive benefits.
(c) She denied permission for Chato to work.
(d) She gave permission for her two children to be removed from her care.

15. When Ayah thinks back to the times she spent with her two children, what does she think happened?
(a) They grew to hate her.
(b) They grew to love her.
(c) They grew to deal with her ways.
(d) They became strangers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ayah believe the people in the bar feel about her being in the bar?

2. What season does the setting take place in?

3. Who allowed the children to be taken by the B.I.A.?

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

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

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