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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 did Grey do at about the same time she acquired Dog?
(a) Won twenty-eight barrel races.
(b) Tied thirteen calves in record time.
(c) Learned the Pony Express mount.
(d) Proclaimed herself mayor of Bote, Oklahoma.

2. Why was the Piegan camp troubled when the unknown boy came to their camp, then disappeared?
(a) They had become fond of him.
(b) They suspected he was evil.
(c) He had become part of their story.
(d) They were afraid for his welfare.

3. How does Grey feel about the horse she names Dog?
(a) He is difficult., but teachable.
(b) He is uncontrollable.
(c) He is the best she could get.
(d) He is the best.

4. Who is Henry McCarty?
(a) The sheriff pursuing Billy the Kid.
(b) Billy the Kid.
(c) Kope'mah's physician.
(d) A physician in Trinidad, Colorado.

5. What caused the butterflies to swarm up from the grass?
(a) Kope-mah's chanting.
(b) The flight of an eagle.
(c) Dog running.
(d) Grey running.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Set when his mother died?

2. What prize had Momaday won when he wrote this book?

3. What is the strange, disinterested figure who approaches Kope'mah?

4. Who does Grey live with?

5. What happened after the strange boy appeared and disappeared?

Short Essay Questions

1. Set is taught in school that art is resistance. But he doesn't believe it. How does Set define art?

2. What does Grey want her grandmother to tell her about Set?

3. Why did the parents of the lost children decide not to grieve for them?

4. Who is the mother and who is the child in Chapter Twelve of Book One?

5. What is the unanswered question, "Quien es?" in Chapter One of Book One?

6. What is the darkest power that Set has encountered? What would he have called this power if he had encountered it in another time and place?

7. Why does Set repeatedly ask Bent to be his father?

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

9. Why did Kope'mah experience loneliness as a medicine woman?

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

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