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

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

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

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

5. According to the Ethnographic Dictionary of Navajo language, why are astrological pursuits often associated with witchcraft?
(a) They require weird ingredients.
(b) They require the slaughter of animals.
(c) They require one who is consecrated to the task.
(d) They require solitude and darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Grey?

2. What does death seem to be to Kope'mah?

3. What surprised Kope'mah as a child when she watched buffalo with her father?

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

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

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