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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Billy the Kid do to prepare for his conversation with Sitting Bear?
(a) Buys a speech.
(b) Invents a speech.
(c) Writes a speech.
(d) Memorizes a speech.

2. What does Sitting Bear admire more than modesty?
(a) Humor.
(b) Courage.
(c) Honesty.
(d) Boasting.

3. As Set grows stronger, what does he begin to do?
(a) Laugh.
(b) Dance.
(c) Sing.
(d) Run.

4. What does Grey see just as Set is arriving at the Mottledmare's home?
(a) A vision of her future with Set.
(b) A vision of Billy the Kid.
(c) A vision of the plains people.
(d) A vision of Set's breakdown.

5. What happens to Set after Bent dies?
(a) His painting becomes more controlled.
(b) He becomes freer, more sociable.
(c) He becomes stronger.
(d) He has a breakdown.

6. What is Dr. Terriman's evaluation of Set's condition?
(a) He is curable.
(b) He is dangerously self-centered.
(c) He is temporarily addled.
(d) He will recover quickly.

7. What does the Navajo part of Grey long for?
(a) She wants to ride a fast horse.
(b) She wants to be a warrior.
(c) She wants to plant seeds and tend flocks.
(d) She wants to travel.

8. What do members of the Navajo tribe call themselves?
(a) Apache.
(b) Wanderers.
(c) Cherokee.
(d) Dine.

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

10. What extraordinary sense did Set acquire as he became a bear?
(a) Taste.
(b) Vision.
(c) Smell.
(d) Hearing.

11. How do the hospital staff treat Set?
(a) With tact and condescension.
(b) With kindness and understanding.
(c) With disregard.
(d) With disrespect.

12. What change comes over Grey at her mother's house?
(a) She changes from a girl to a woman.
(b) She feels less sure of herself.
(c) She becomes restless and wild.
(d) She becomes lazy and childlike.

13. How does Grey feel during the heavy rainstorms of the plains?
(a) Small and helpless.
(b) Timid.
(c) Enlivened.
(d) Frightened.

14. What caused the Piegan people to continue to believe in the boy who turned into a bear?
(a) The bear became a legend.
(b) Hunters returned from the woods with strange bear stories.
(c) A hunter shot the bear.
(d) The bear came into the camp.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Grey believe will bring Set to her?

2. Why couldn't the plains have an ordinary place name?

3. The plains are a perfect equation of what two elements?

4. How long does Worcester Meat think he will live?

5. What does Lela say has made Set sick?

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