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Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Ayah remember her mother using the loom?
(a) Beside her grandmother.
(b) Outside their hogan.
(c) Inside their hogan.
(d) Under the shade of a tamarack tree.
2. At the beginning of the story, where is Ayah sitting?
(a) The edge of Cebolleta Creek.
(b) Outside her hogan.
(c) On the mesa.
(d) In the woods.
3. What does the wet wool smell of her blanket remind Ayah of?
(a) Newborn goats.
(b) Life.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Jimmie.
4. Where does the story take place?
(a) In Taos.
(b) In New York.
(c) In Phoenix.
(d) In Navajo Country.
5. Why is Chato permitted in the bars?
(a) Because he is a regular.
(b) Because he is kind.
(c) Because he speaks Spanish like one of them.
(d) Because he has a running tab.
Short Answer Questions
1. At the beginning of the second section, what is the weather doing?
2. What season does the setting take place in?
3. What metaphor does the people in the bar's looks compare Ayah to?
4. Why does Ayah need to warm herself by the fire?
5. What does Ayah remember happening to Jimmie?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Silko make a point of stating that the white doctors came before they hire Navajo women to go with them as interpreters?
2. Why is Ayah's hatred of the fact that Chato teaches her to sign her name a part of the theme of the story?
3. What does Ayah recognize about Chato's drinking?
4. In what ways is the older Navajo men's warning about language--to learn their language or any of their ways endangers you--borne out throughout the story?
5. Why did Ayah feel the men look at her like she is a spider?
6. What does Jimmie's true Navajo name being reduced to something as common as "Jimmie" in English say about the white man?
7. Why was the walk back to the bar a "hard walk" for Ayah?
8. What do the scars on Chato's hands symbolize?
9. The opening line reads, "the sun goes down, but the snow in the wind give off its own light." How does this beginning statement serve as an introduction to the main protagonist, Ayah?
10. Why is it important for Ayah to remember that her mother's blankets are soft and woven so tight that rain rolls off of them?
This section contains 1,227 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) |
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