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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lola Bourne think Set is doing?
(a) Reconstructing himself.
(b) Enjoying himself.
(c) Forgetting himself.
(d) Annihilating himself.

2. What did Koi-ehm-toya's great-great grandson become?
(a) A grass dancer.
(b) A medicine man.
(c) A painter.
(d) A maker of shields.

3. How does Worcester Meat feel as his life ends?
(a) Lonely and frightened.
(b) Impatient and angry.
(c) Tired and sick.
(d) Serene and refreshed.

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

5. What does Dr. Terriman discuss with Set?
(a) Native American folk music.
(b) Bears.
(c) Set's art.
(d) Psychology.

6. What does the boy leave behind him?
(a) The sound of his laughter.
(b) No sound at all.
(c) The sound of his crying.
(d) The sound of his running.

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

8. How did Set know where to go to begin his quest for a vision?
(a) Jessie Mottledmare had told him.
(b) His spirit had told him.
(c) Grey and Lela had told him.
(d) Kope'mah had told him.

9. 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.

10. What does Lola Bourne do with her letter to Set?
(a) She hands it to him.
(b) She quits writing it.
(c) She mails it.
(d) She burns it.

11. Why did the Piegan people decide not to believe in the child who disappeared?
(a) The child had not spoken a word of sense.
(b) The child faded away before their eyes.
(c) The child was an impossibility.
(d) The child turned into a bear before their eyes.

12. Where does Worcester Meat go after he has been sick for thirteen more days?
(a) To the bed where Kope'mah died.
(b) To the forest.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) Home to his little house.

13. How unusual is Set's kind of breakdown?
(a) It is quite unusual.
(b) It is fairly common.
(c) It is extremely rare.
(d) It happens all the time.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bent tell Set when Set sees a vision of Bent in the garden?

2. What does Sitting Bear admire more than modesty?

3. What does Set find in his old bedroom?

4. What do Grey and Set see in the masks of the dancers?

5. Who belonged to the dog soldier organization of the Kiowa tribe?

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