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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was Jessie Mottledmare jealous of Grey?
(a) Because Billy the Kid knew Grey.
(b) Because Grey was more beautiful.
(c) Because Kope'mah confided in Grey.
(d) Because Grey had the honor of caring for Kope'mah.

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

4. What did Billy the Kid return as promised?
(a) Billy Burt's mare.
(b) Billy Burt's money.
(c) Jose Cordova's money.
(d) Jose Cordova's horse.

5. What was the name of the first painting Lola Bourne bought from Set?
(a) "Girl on Horseback."
(b) "Night Window Man."
(c) "Window in the Dark."
(d) "Centaur in the Dark."

6. What expression does Grey learn was found in Billy the Kid's eyes?
(a) Nothing whatever.
(b) Crazed excitement.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Ferocious anger.

7. What does Set think that Grey has more than beauty?
(a) She is childlike.
(b) She is intelligent.
(c) She is graceful.
(d) She is infinitely interesting.

8. What promise had Grey made that preys on Set?
(a) She would teach him to ride.
(b) She would tell him about his parents.
(c) She would teach him Kiowa stories.
(d) She had something important to give him.

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

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

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

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

13. Why did the Kiowa doll fascinate Grey?
(a) She felt it represented an unknown culture.
(b) She felt it was more beautiful than she.
(c) She felt it represented part of herself.
(d) She felt it represented a world she didn't understand.

14. Who told Set the story of the boy who turns into a bear?
(a) His father, Cate.
(b) Kope'mah.
(c) Grey.
(d) Sister Stella Francesca.

15. What does death seem to be to Kope'mah?
(a) A blessing.
(b) A friend.
(c) A riddle.
(d) An enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author describe Kiowa life in the summertime?

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

3. What does Lola think about the little man in the painting she buys?

4. What happened after the strange boy appeared and disappeared?

5. Who does Grey want to imitate as a rider?

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