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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was the Piegan camp troubled when the unknown boy came to their camp, then disappeared?
(a) He had become part of their story.
(b) They were afraid for his welfare.
(c) They suspected he was evil.
(d) They had become fond of him.

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

3. What is "Indian time?"
(a) Things happen as they happen.
(b) There is no such thing as time.
(c) Everyone is late.
(d) Daylight Savings Time.

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

5. Who is Luke?
(a) A Kiowa boy.
(b) A child.
(c) A horse.
(d) A dog.

6. How did Koi-ehm-toya know the children were not foraging for food?
(a) No one had called them to hunt for food.
(b) They were too young to forage.
(c) They were running, not walking.
(d) There was plenty of food in the camp.

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

8. Who was the only member of the tribe to grieve the loss of the children who had disappeared?
(a) The strangers.
(b) The medicine man.
(c) Koi-ehm-toya.
(d) The parents.

9. Who does Grey live with?
(a) Worcester Meat.
(b) Jessie Mottledmare.
(c) She lives alone.
(d) Kope'mah.

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

11. What passion had Perfecto Atole given Grey?
(a) Sex.
(b) Rodeo.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Horse racing.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Murphy feel after he has lost the horse?

2. What did the wise man advise the Piegan people to do about the disappearing boy?

3. According to the prologue, how did the giant rock Tsoai become lined?

4. How does Set feel as he comes to the Indian encampment?

5. How old is Dog?

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