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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had caused Set's breakdown, according to the hospital?
(a) Daydreaming.
(b) Working too hard.
(c) Skipping meals.
(d) Extraordinary psychological pressure.

2. What does each man of the plains look at first upon waking?
(a) The sunrise.
(b) The endless spaces.
(c) Tsoai, the giant tree turned to stone.
(d) The horizon.

3. How does the sight of the monolith, Tsoai, affect Set when he sees it?
(a) It is beautiful.
(b) It is ominous.
(c) It is comforting.
(d) It is miraculous.

4. Why does Lola Bourne find it easy to relinquish Set to Grey?
(a) She doesn't love Set.
(b) She is hurt by Set's faithlessness.
(c) She no longer knows him.
(d) She is tired of him.

5. Who killed Billy the Kid?
(a) Pat Garrett.
(b) A rancher named Wilcox.
(c) A Texas ranger.
(d) Charlie Bowdre.

6. What do Grey and Set see in the masks of the dancers?
(a) Art.
(b) The gods.
(c) The future.
(d) Beauty.

7. How do Grey and Set marry?
(a) In a traditional ceremony in the hogan.
(b) In Las Vegas.
(c) At the county courthouse.
(d) In a modern ceremony in the desert.

8. What did people who came later find the early tribes had left on the plains?
(a) Charred wood and bones.
(b) Tamed animals.
(c) Cultivated crops.
(d) Skeletons.

9. What did the ancient Native Americans call the plains?
(a) The land of long distances.
(b) The land of unnameable distances.
(c) The land of innumerable long distances.
(d) The land of innumerable distances.

10. Why does Grey think she is beautiful?
(a) Because she is Native American.
(b) Because she is tall and slim.
(c) Because she is healthy and young.
(d) Because she is strong and restless.

11. What quality did the Kiowas have that the Navajo did not approve?
(a) Arrogance.
(b) Thievery.
(c) Dishonesty.
(d) Daring.

12. Why does Billy the Kid feel unable to talk to Sitting Bear?
(a) Billy the Kid has few words.
(b) Billy the Kid has commited great crimes.
(c) Billy the Kid is ashamed of his life.
(d) Billy the Kid is not honest.

13. What tracks did those who came later to the plains find?
(a) A giant wolf.
(b) A fast horse.
(c) A great bear.
(d) A buffalo herd.

14. Why don't Grey and Set speak at the dance?
(a) There is nothing to say.
(b) They are angry with each other.
(c) They are restricted in their conversation.
(d) They are unsure how to proceed.

15. What does Grey believe will bring Set to her?
(a) His Kiowa blood.
(b) The medicine bundle.
(c) His need for understanding of his culture.
(d) The sheer strength of her will.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Set's chart say that he is capable of violence?

2. What does the Navajo part of Grey long for?

3. How long is Set hospitalized?

4. What does Billy the Kid do to prepare for his conversation with Sitting Bear?

5. What caused the Piegan people to continue to believe in the boy who turned into a bear?

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