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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Set go when he wakes up in Mottledmares' house?
(a) To Kope'mah's grave.
(b) To Grey's house.
(c) To Catlin Setmaunt's grave.
(d) To the creek.

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

4. What does Grey go to the cemetery to ask her grandmother about Set?
(a) Is he related to us?
(b) Is he the bear?
(c) Is he the one for me?
(d) Will he return?

5. What motivated Set to compromise his artistic vision?
(a) Insecurity.
(b) Praise and celebrity.
(c) Money.
(d) Kindness.

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

7. What do the Piegan feel when it is suggested to them that the strange boy was really a bear?
(a) Betrayed.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Disturbed.
(d) Angry.

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

9. What was the date of Billy the Kid's death?
(a) July 13.
(b) July 15.
(c) July 16.
(d) July 14.

10. What does Set feel as he accepts the medicine bundle?
(a) An unexpected confidence.
(b) An unaccountable fear.
(c) Comfort.
(d) A confusion of past and present, reality and legend.

11. What does Grey imagine she gave Billy the Kid in jail?
(a) A note.
(b) A knife.
(c) A gun.
(d) A pin.

12. How does Grey react to the news that the bear is coming?
(a) She dreams she sleeps with the bear.
(b) She dreams the bear kills her.
(c) She dreams the bear carries her away.
(d) She dreams she kills the bear.

13. What passion had Perfecto Atole given Grey?
(a) Rodeo.
(b) Horse racing.
(c) Sex.
(d) Drugs.

14. Who does Grey want to imitate as a rider?
(a) Jessie Mottledmare.
(b) Bertha Yazzie.
(c) Billy the Kid.
(d) Kope'mah.

15. Who is Deluvina Maxwell?
(a) A friend of Kope'mah.
(b) One of the seven sisters.
(c) A Navajo servant.
(d) Grey's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Cate?

2. How does Borges tell us myth relates to literature?

3. What did Billy the Kid return as promised?

4. What does the wise man advise the people to do with the boy's story?

5. How old was Set when his mother died?

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