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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Grey go to the cemetery to ask her grandmother about Set?
(a) Is he the bear?
(b) Is he the one for me?
(c) Will he return?
(d) Is he related to us?

2. How did Billy the Kid feel after shooting the two men?
(a) Exhausted.
(b) Bored.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Exhilarated.

3. Why does Set hesitate to answer the telephone?
(a) He doesn't want to confess that he is sick.
(b) He doesn't want to speak to anyone.
(c) He is not absolutely sure that he can speak.
(d) He doesn't want to tell the story of the bear.

4. Which tribe's myth forms the basis of this story?
(a) Kiowa.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Navajo.
(d) Cherokee.

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

6. Who raped Grey?
(a) Worcester Meat.
(b) Billy the Kid.
(c) Dwight Dicks.
(d) Murphy Dicks.

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

8. What caused the butterflies to swarm up from the grass?
(a) Grey running.
(b) Dog running.
(c) Kope-mah's chanting.
(d) The flight of an eagle.

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

10. What differentiates Set from the man he sees in the mirror?
(a) The image in the glass will not move.
(b) The image in the glass is a portrait.
(c) The image in the glass seems older.
(d) Set's right eye is his left eye.

11. Who does Set hope to astonish with his painting?
(a) Art critics.
(b) Bent.
(c) Grey.
(d) God.

12. Where does Set go when he wakes up in Mottledmares' house?
(a) To Grey's house.
(b) To Catlin Setmaunt's grave.
(c) To Kope'mah's grave.
(d) To the creek.

13. What surprised Kope'mah as a child when she watched buffalo with her father?
(a) They seemed noble and majestic.
(b) They seemed to move slowly but covered ground quickly.
(c) They seemed innumerable.
(d) They seemed to leave no mark on the scene.

14. According to the prologue, how did the giant rock Tsoai become lined?
(a) The bear scratched it with his claws.
(b) Water erosion made ditches down the sides.
(c) Hunters scored it with their spears.
(d) It was torn being pulled up from the earth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Set?

2. What is "Indian time?"

3. How does Set begin his recovery from the brink of madness?

4. How does Murphy lose his horse?

5. What does Set feel as he accepts the medicine bundle?

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