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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 does the author describe Kiowa life in the summertime?
(a) It was idyllic.
(b) It was deprived.
(c) It was frightening.
(d) It was dirty and ignorant.

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

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

4. What two cultures combine in Grey?
(a) Navajo and Cree.
(b) Blackfoot and Nez Perce.
(c) Kiowa and Navajo.
(d) Kiowa and Sioux.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What prize had Momaday won when he wrote this book?

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

4. In the Kiowa myth, why are the boy's sisters running from him?

5. Why does Koi-ehm-toya think her people have grown careless?

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