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True or False Questions

1. The Navajos, who were brutally driven away from their own land, are now living on a reservation where they are much isolated from the rest of the world.

2. The Navajos live in small cottages and make their living mainly by raising cattle.

3. The Navajos live a very simple life, having very little personal property and no religion at all.

4. Compared with other Americans, the Navajos are more peaceful, hardworking and competitive .

5. The author thinks that to live an Indian life is more difficult than to live the life of the American blacks .

6. The Indians maintain a more harmonious relationship with nature than do other Americans .

7. The author believes that Americans should learn from the Indians and adopt some of their ways of life.

8. The author , based on her observations of the Navajos, has come to the conclusion that life does not have one meaning that we all hold in common: each of us should look for the meaning of life as individuals.

Multiple-choice Questions

1. The author implies that her father_____.

A) favors the Indians' views about land
B) regrets his fighting against the Indians
C) criticizes the U. S. government's policy
D) had killed many Indians

2. The land on which the Indians live is_____ .

A) vast but poor for farming or herding
B) vast and good for agriculture
C) vast and well-supplied with water
D) vast but worthless

3. The Navajos believe that when a person is sick, the only way for him or her to recover is to _________.

A) stain his or her face with paint
B) listen to old men saying prayers
C) be put back in harmony with nature
D) drive the evil spirits out of his or her body

4. The reason why Bessie Yellowhair found it hard to work for a white family was that_________ ?

A)the whites were difficult to get along with
B)she did not know how to do her work well
C)her morality contradicted that of the whites
D)she felt isolated from her native way of life

5. The author answered an ad asking for a Navajo baby-sitter because she _______.

A) wanted to contrast the experience of being an Indian with that of a black
B) wanted to understand how an Indian would react if working in a similar job
C) wanted to find out how the whites treat their own children
D) wanted to know what it was like to be an Indian in white society

6. The essence of the Navajo religion is _____.

A) being in harmony with nature
B) being close to the society
C) having directness of perception
D) worshipping the holy people




 

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