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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 does Grey want to imitate as a rider?
(a) Jessie Mottledmare.
(b) Kope'mah.
(c) Billy the Kid.
(d) Bertha Yazzie.

2. According to the prologue, how did the giant rock Tsoai become lined?
(a) Water erosion made ditches down the sides.
(b) The bear scratched it with his claws.
(c) Hunters scored it with their spears.
(d) It was torn being pulled up from the earth.

3. Who told Set the story of the boy who turns into a bear?
(a) Sister Stella Francesca.
(b) His father, Cate.
(c) Grey.
(d) Kope'mah.

4. According to the Ethnographic Dictionary of Navajo language, why are astrological pursuits often associated with witchcraft?
(a) They require weird ingredients.
(b) They require the slaughter of animals.
(c) They require solitude and darkness.
(d) They require one who is consecrated to the task.

5. How old was Set when his mother died?
(a) He was a newborn.
(b) He was seven.
(c) He was seventeen.
(d) He was twenty-seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Murphy feel after he has lost the horse?

2. Why was Jessie Mottledmare jealous of Grey?

3. How old is Murphy Dicks?

4. With whose death does the story begin?

5. Who does Murphy think he sounds like when he talks?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Koi-ehm-toya see as her responsibility to the children who wander into the woods?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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