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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. What does Set do each night?
(a) He watches television.
(b) He opens the medicine bundle.
(c) He waits patiently for the day to end.
(d) He goes for a run.

2. What has Billy the Kid come to learn about from Sitting Bear?
(a) The purpose of life.
(b) Courage.
(c) Truth.
(d) Death.

3. What quality did the Kiowas have that the Navajo did not approve?
(a) Dishonesty.
(b) Thievery.
(c) Daring.
(d) Arrogance.

4. How do the hospital staff treat Set?
(a) With kindness and understanding.
(b) With tact and condescension.
(c) With disrespect.
(d) With disregard.

5. What does each man of the plains look at first upon waking?
(a) The sunrise.
(b) Tsoai, the giant tree turned to stone.
(c) The horizon.
(d) The endless spaces.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do members of the Navajo tribe call themselves?

2. What did Koi-ehm-toya's great-great grandson become?

3. What brings Set the greatest happiness he has known?

4. What did the bear do that was unusual?

5. What does Bent tell Set when Set sees a vision of Bent in the garden?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Set enter his old house with dread?

2. What do the lines on the red earth represent?

3. What did every people who inhabited the great plains find there?

4. How does Set's art change as his personality begins to disintegrate?

5. Who is the boy that Set sees and hears in the garden of his old house?

6. What is the Kaitsenko Society?

7. How does Set respond to the hospital staff's diagnosis and explanations of his condition?

8. For what does Grey thank Lola Bourne?

9. What characteristic does Grey say is shared by her mother and her sister and her niece?

10. As Grey changes from a girl to a woman, how does Set's attitude toward her change?

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