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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 Loki?
(a) A horse.
(b) The child Set.
(c) A dog.
(d) A Kiowa boy.

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

3. What promise had Grey made that preys on Set?
(a) She would teach him Kiowa stories.
(b) She would teach him to ride.
(c) She would tell him about his parents.
(d) She had something important to give him.

4. Who tells Grey that the bear is coming?
(a) Kope'mah.
(b) Perfecto Atole.
(c) Koi-ehm-toya.
(d) The bear himself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Ethnographic Dictionary of Navajo language, why are astrological pursuits often associated with witchcraft?

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

3. What was the date of Billy the Kid's death?

4. What does Set dream of losing in the woods?

5. How old is Set?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Grey feel about her appearance?

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

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

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

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