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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 12, They Sit So, Like Mother and Child | Book 1, Chapter 13, He Expounds: God's Boredom Is Infinite.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the singing and dancing among the Kiowa end?
(a) The seasons changed.
(b) Their group was divided.
(c) They moved to the mountains.
(d) They became quarrelsome.

2. Where does Grey imagine she met Billy the Kid?
(a) In jail.
(b) In the courthouse.
(c) On horseback.
(d) At the outhouse.

3. What made Grey's great-grandmother, Kope'mah, into a medicine woman?
(a) She was voted upon by the tribe.
(b) She saw Tai-me, the sacred Sun Dance doll.
(c) She danced in a Sun Dance.
(d) She had a vision of the bear.

4. Who does Murphy think he sounds like when he talks?
(a) The rodeo announcer.
(b) Perfecto Atole.
(c) A coward.
(d) His father.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the Kiowa doll fascinate Grey?

3. According to the prologue, how did the giant rock Tsoai become lined?

4. Who does Set hope to astonish with his painting?

5. With whose death does the story begin?

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