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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprised Kope'mah as a child when she watched buffalo with her father?
(a) They seemed innumerable.
(b) They seemed noble and majestic.
(c) They seemed to move slowly but covered ground quickly.
(d) They seemed to leave no mark on the scene.

2. How does Borges tell us myth relates to literature?
(a) It is the beginning.
(b) It is the beginning and the end.
(c) It is the part of literature that endures.
(d) It is the end result.

3. What does Alais Sancerre see in the painting "Venture Beyond Time"?
(a) A centaur.
(b) A dwarf.
(c) Set himself.
(d) Kafka.

4. What does Lola think about the little man in the painting she buys?
(a) He's at a still point.
(b) He represents Everyman.
(c) He's about to be transformed.
(d) He's a locus of quiet.

5. In the Kiowa myth, why are the boy's sisters running from him?
(a) The boy is being mean to them.
(b) They're playing a game.
(c) They're having a foot race.
(d) The boy has become a bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Set the story of the boy who turns into a bear?

2. With whose death does the story begin?

3. Why does Koi-ehm-toya think her people have grown careless?

4. How did the townspeople react to Billy's escape?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Set define art as he struggles with his reflection in the mirror?

2. What do masks represent to Grey as she makes them?

3. Why is it that Grey never has to quest after visions?

4. What feelings do the sisters experience as their brother turns into a bear?

5. What does Set think is the most wonderful of God's creations?

6. Why was it better for the Piegan people to believe that the boy was a bear than that he was a boy?

7. What passion did Grey acquire from Perfecto Atole?

8. What comes to nothing in Chapter Twenty of Book One? Why does everything feel pointless to Set as he considers his pilgrimage home?

9. What does Lola Bourne see in the painting "Night Window Man" that Set himself does not see?

10. Who first let Grey know that the bear was coming into her life?

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