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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 8, They Are Too Far Away | Book 1, Chapter 9, She Fixes Him in an Evil-eye Stare.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prize had Momaday won when he wrote this book?
(a) The National Book Award.
(b) The Nobel Prize for Literature.
(c) The Pulitzer Prize.
(d) The American Book Award.

2. How does Borges tell us myth relates to literature?
(a) It is the part of literature that endures.
(b) It is the end result.
(c) It is the beginning.
(d) It is the beginning and the end.

3. What language does Grey grow up speaking?
(a) Navajo.
(b) Kiowa.
(c) Lakota Sioux.
(d) English.

4. How did Koi-ehm-toya know the children were not foraging for food?
(a) They were running, not walking.
(b) There was plenty of food in the camp.
(c) No one had called them to hunt for food.
(d) They were too young to forage.

5. What did Grey do at about the same time she acquired Dog?
(a) Tied thirteen calves in record time.
(b) Learned the Pony Express mount.
(c) Proclaimed herself mayor of Bote, Oklahoma.
(d) Won twenty-eight barrel races.

Short Answer Questions

1. What passion had Perfecto Atole given Grey?

2. How old is Kope'mah when she falls ill?

3. How did the townspeople react to Billy's escape?

4. What caused the butterflies to swarm up from the grass?

5. How many children does Koi-ehm-toya see from her tipi?

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