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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. Who is Cate?
(a) Catlin Setmaunt, Set's grandfather
(b) Another name for Kope'mah.
(c) Another name for Set.
(d) Catlin Setmaunt, Set's father.

2. What language does Grey grow up speaking?
(a) Lakota Sioux.
(b) Navajo.
(c) English.
(d) Kiowa.

3. What does Grey go to the cemetery to ask her grandmother about Set?
(a) Is he related to us?
(b) Will he return?
(c) Is he the one for me?
(d) Is he the bear?

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

5. How old is Kope'mah when she falls ill?
(a) Ninety-four.
(b) Ninety-eight.
(c) Eighty-five.
(d) One hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a hogleg?

2. How old is Set?

3. Why does Set hesitate to answer the telephone?

4. Why was Jessie Mottledmare jealous of Grey?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Grey feel about her appearance?

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

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

5. Why does Billy the Kid visit Grey while she tends the dying Kope'mah?

6. Why doesn't Paulita Maxwell weep?

7. What is the purpose that Grey must serve in this chapter, although she is weary and hurt? What would she rather do?

8. What was Set's first real notion of the infinite?

9. Dwight Dicks and his son Murphy are discussing an event, and there is a menace among their words. What event are they discussing in Chapter Eighteen of Book One and why is there menace?

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

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