The Man to Send Rain Clouds

When Leon and Ken realize Teofilo did not return, they...

• start searching for him.

• begin to worry and weep

• expect to find him dead

• report his murder to the police

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The story takes place ...

• in a small village in Mexico
• under a rain cloud
• in a small village in New Mexico
• in the old days

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The story revolves around...

• rituals involving rain dances
• rites associated with the burial of the dead
• alcohol problems among Native Americans
• Native American traditional ways of farming

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When Ken and Leon find Teofilo dead, they appear to be

• unsurprised
• shocked
• grieved
• relieved

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What Ken and Leon do with Teofilo is to...

• tie a feather to his hair and perform a drum ceremony
• paint his face, tie a feather to his hair, call the priest
• decorate him with paint and a feather, toss rocks at clouds
• decorate him, throw cornmeal, carry him home in a blanket

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At the house Teofilo is... 

• put in a cool basement room while everyone eats lunch
• buried quickly in the garden
• dressed in new clothes
• put on display decorated with feathers

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The Native Americans eat lunch while Teofilo lies dead nearby, showing that they...

• lack respect for death
• think dead people can bless the food
• regard death as natural and ordinary
• respect the death of the food they are eating

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After the villagers pay their respect to Teofilo,

• they bury him in a non-Christian ceremony
• Father Paul comes and buries him
• they burn him in a funeral pyre
• he is placed in a structure of sticks and leaves in a tree

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Father Paul is... 

• a Catholic priest
• a Native American scholar
• a Lutheran minister
• a funeral director

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Ken and Leon don't tell Father Paul that Teofilo has died because they...

• don't feel they need him
• do not respect the Catholic religion
• are afraid he will steal the body
• have had bad experiences in Catholic schools

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