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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 did people who came later find the early tribes had left on the plains?
(a) Charred wood and bones.
(b) Tamed animals.
(c) Skeletons.
(d) Cultivated crops.

2. What increases the bond between Set and Grey?
(a) Mutual interests.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Conversation.
(d) Consideration.

3. What extraordinary sense did Set acquire as he became a bear?
(a) Smell.
(b) Taste.
(c) Hearing.
(d) Vision.

4. How is Set's health as he begins his vision quest?
(a) He is physically fit.
(b) He is twenty years too old.
(c) He is tired.
(d) He is weak from his illness.

5. What kept Maman-ti from dismounting to take shelter from the storm?
(a) The ground was too muddy.
(b) Ghosts have no need of shelter.
(c) There were snakes in the road.
(d) The ground was covered with tarantulas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lela say has made Set sick?

2. Why did the Piegan people decide not to believe in the child who disappeared?

3. Why does Billy the Kid feel unable to talk to Sitting Bear?

4. What does Dr. Terriman discuss with Set?

5. How unusual is Set's kind of breakdown?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why were the Piegan people unable to believe in the child?

5. Grey closes one calendar and opens another in Chapter Eleven of Book Two. What do these different calendars represent?

6. Why does Dr. Merriman's knowledge of folklore, witchcraft, and medical mythology fail to impress Set?

7. What is the Kaitsenko Society?

8. What is unusual about the death of Worcester Meat?

9. What does Set mean when he tells Lela that the bear stands against him, and that he is the bear?

10. How does Worcester Meat feel when he dies?

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