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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Billy the Kid bring to Sitting Bear?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Guns.
(c) Liquor.
(d) Blankets.

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

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

5. What increases the bond between Set and Grey?
(a) Consideration.
(b) Conversation.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Mutual interests.

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

7. What does Grey feel as she saw Set driving into Mottledmare's property?
(a) Worry.
(b) Fear.
(c) Apprehension.
(d) Relief.

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

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

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

11. Why couldn't the plains have an ordinary place name?
(a) They were too flat.
(b) They were too frightening.
(c) They were too boring.
(d) They were too vast.

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

13. What does Alais Sancerre notice about Set's body after they have slept together?
(a) He is pale and sickly looking.
(b) He is tense and tight-muscled.
(c) He has hair everywhere on his body.
(d) He is muscular and strong.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Grey think her mother and sister will come to like Set?

3. What quality did the Kiowas have that the Navajo did not approve?

4. What did people who came later find the early tribes had left on the plains?

5. What was the vision that Set was looking for?

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