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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 24, This Matter of Having No Name Is Perhaps the Center of the Story | Book 1, Chapter 25, The Bear Comes Forth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the singing and dancing among the Kiowa end?
(a) The seasons changed.
(b) Their group was divided.
(c) They moved to the mountains.
(d) They became quarrelsome.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whose death does the story begin?

2. How old is Grey?

3. How old is Murphy Dicks?

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

5. What color is the medicine bundle?

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