This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. Silko uses nature imagery in the opening paragraph to help introduce the character of Ayah. What does the winter setting reflect about her?

A) Ayah lives on the land of her ancestors in a cold, northern region of North America.

B) Ayah is, metaphorically, in the ‘winter’ season of her life.

C) Ayah’s favorite time of the year is winter.

D) Ayah’s happiest memories are of playing in the snow as a child.

2. Ayah does not want to think about Jimmie’s death, so what memory does she contemplate?

A) her mother and grandmother teaching her to cook

B) her mother tucking her into bed under a colorful blanket

C) sitting with her mother and grandmother by a warm fire