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

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

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

4. With whose death does the story begin?
(a) Pete Maxwell.
(b) John Poe.
(c) Alejandro Segura.
(d) Billy the Kid.

5. Why does Koi-ehm-toya think her people have grown careless?
(a) No one accompanied the children.
(b) No one is worried about the children's safety.
(c) They force children to forage for food.
(d) They allow children to wander in the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the butterflies to swarm up from the grass?

2. How did Koi-ehm-toya know the children were not foraging for food?

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

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

5. How old is Set?

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