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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Grey want to imitate as a rider?
(a) Jessie Mottledmare.
(b) Bertha Yazzie.
(c) Billy the Kid.
(d) Kope'mah.

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

4. How does Set begin his recovery from the brink of madness?
(a) He answers the phone.
(b) He takes a shower.
(c) He goes out for chowder.
(d) He has an omelet at Joe's.

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

6. How does Grey feel about the horse she names Dog?
(a) He is difficult., but teachable.
(b) He is the best she could get.
(c) He is uncontrollable.
(d) He is the best.

7. What did the wise man advise the Piegan people to do about the disappearing boy?
(a) Forget about him.
(b) Go search for him.
(c) Meditate about him.
(d) Do not believe in him.

8. How old is Dog?
(a) Eight.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

9. How does Set feel as he comes to the Indian encampment?
(a) Bored.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Excited.
(d) Restless.

10. What does Lola think about the little man in the painting she buys?
(a) He represents Everyman.
(b) He's a locus of quiet.
(c) He's at a still point.
(d) He's about to be transformed.

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

12. Who tells Grey that the bear is coming?
(a) Kope'mah.
(b) Perfecto Atole.
(c) Koi-ehm-toya.
(d) The bear himself.

13. What did Grey do at about the same time she acquired Dog?
(a) Won twenty-eight barrel races.
(b) Proclaimed herself mayor of Bote, Oklahoma.
(c) Learned the Pony Express mount.
(d) Tied thirteen calves in record time.

14. How old is Murphy Dicks?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Forty.

15. When Grey was being raped, who does she imagine is making love to her?
(a) Murphy Dicks.
(b) Worcester Meat.
(c) Dwight Dicks.
(d) Billy the Kid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What motivated Set to compromise his artistic vision?

2. What do the Piegan feel when it is suggested to them that the strange boy was really a bear?

3. Why was Jessie Mottledmare jealous of Grey?

4. What is "Indian time?"

5. What made Grey's great-grandmother, Kope'mah, into a medicine woman?

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