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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 24, This Matter of Having No Name Is Perhaps the Center of the Story | Book 1, Chapter 25, The Bear Comes Forth.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Set when his mother died?
(a) He was a newborn.
(b) He was seventeen.
(c) He was twenty-seven.
(d) He was seven.

3. How old is Set?
(a) Fifty-seven.
(b) Forty-four.
(c) Twenty-six.
(d) Thirty-five.

4. What is the strange, disinterested figure who approaches Kope'mah?
(a) Death.
(b) Kope'mah.
(c) Tai-me.
(d) Grey.

5. What is a bee-wolf?
(a) A Native American name for a wolf.
(b) An ancient name for a werewolf.
(c) A female wolf.
(d) An ancient name for a bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grey go to the cemetery to ask her grandmother about Set?

2. Who tells Grey that the bear is coming?

3. What made Grey's great-grandmother, Kope'mah, into a medicine woman?

4. According to the Ethnographic Dictionary of Navajo language, why are astrological pursuits often associated with witchcraft?

5. Who is Loki?

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