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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 Set begin his recovery from the brink of madness?
(a) He takes a shower.
(b) He has an omelet at Joe's.
(c) He answers the phone.
(d) He goes out for chowder.

2. Who does Murphy think he sounds like when he talks?
(a) Perfecto Atole.
(b) The rodeo announcer.
(c) A coward.
(d) His father.

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

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

5. How did Billy the Kid feel after shooting the two men?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Exhausted.
(c) Exhilarated.
(d) Bored.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who raped Grey?

2. What language does Grey grow up speaking?

3. Why doesn't Jason want to display the painting Lola Bourne buys?

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

5. How old is Kope'mah when she falls ill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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