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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. How does the author describe Kiowa life in the summertime?
(a) It was dirty and ignorant.
(b) It was frightening.
(c) It was idyllic.
(d) It was deprived.

2. How old is Set?
(a) Thirty-five.
(b) Twenty-six.
(c) Fifty-seven.
(d) Forty-four.

3. What is the strange, disinterested figure who approaches Kope'mah?
(a) Tai-me.
(b) Kope'mah.
(c) Grey.
(d) Death.

4. How did the people feel when they saw the stars after the others disappeared?
(a) Enchanted.
(b) Honored.
(c) Pleased.
(d) Respectful, even reverent.

5. How does Set feel as he comes to the Indian encampment?
(a) Excited.
(b) Restless.
(c) Bored.
(d) Frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What promise had Grey made that preys on Set?

2. How does Borges tell us myth relates to literature?

3. Who does Grey live with?

4. What two cultures combine in Grey?

5. What does the wise man advise the people to do with the boy's story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Murphy Dicks feel ashamed when he talks to Grey?

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

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

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

5. How does Grey feel about her appearance?

6. How do the Native Americans let the summer go?

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

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

9. The bear comes forth in planes, Dog is seen by Grey as standing in a plane, and Set's mind is perceived in planes. What are planes in this context?

10. At the Mottledmares', Set has a dream that he is deprived of a power that seems to him important. What does he dream he cannot do?

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