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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. How old is Kope'mah when she falls ill?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Eighty-five.
(c) Ninety-four.
(d) Ninety-eight.

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

3. Why did the Kiowa doll fascinate Grey?
(a) She felt it was more beautiful than she.
(b) She felt it represented an unknown culture.
(c) She felt it represented part of herself.
(d) She felt it represented a world she didn't understand.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which tribe's myth forms the basis of this story?

2. Why did the singing and dancing among the Kiowa end?

3. What two cultures combine in Grey?

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

5. Why does Dog return to Grey after he gallops away?

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