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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What season does the setting take place in?
2. Why does Ayah take care of Chato?
3. What happened to all of Ayah's other children?
4. Whom did the government person talk to about Jimmie's death?
5. What affliction does Chato suffer from because of his old age?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Silko mean when she says Ayah carries the pain of "in her belly" and that the pain is fed by everything Ayah sees?
2. In the opening paragraph of "Lullaby", Ayah reaches out to touch the falling snow--like her babies do--and this makes her smile. Describe how this analogy to youth ties into the title of the short story.
3. What is the significance of Ayah's shoes as analogy of the power of time and the progression of one culture overtaking another?
4. What is the importance of the lullaby at the end of the story?
5. Why does the death of Jimmie serve as an important memory for Ayah and for the reader?
6. What do the scars on Chato's hands symbolize?
7. What is the significance of Ayah offering half her blanket to Chato as they walk down the road?
8. What does Silko mean when she says that Ayah's life becomes memories?
9. What does Ayah mean when she says "they are already being weaned from the lava hills and from this sky"?
10. What is the significance of Ayah fleeing with the children to the hills?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the importance of the Anglos who watch Ayah search for Chato? They do not offer help or aid, but merely watch her efforts. What does this symbolize? What are their actions (or inaction) an analogy of? Use fact details from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
Ayah states that the Navajo elders advise against learning the white man's language or his ways for it endangers them. How does Ayah's life story of tragedy at the hands of white prove the validity of this statement? In what ways does Chato embody that danger the elders warn about? Use the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
What is Ayah and Chato's garden a symbol of? What is the purpose its role in the story. What does it mean to Ayah and Chato and to the theme of tradition and pride? Use fact details from the text to support your answer.
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