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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. Why did the Piegan people decide not to believe in the child who disappeared?
(a) The child turned into a bear before their eyes.
(b) The child was an impossibility.
(c) The child had not spoken a word of sense.
(d) The child faded away before their eyes.

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

3. Who is Koi-ehm-toya?
(a) Grey.
(b) Bent.
(c) Set.
(d) Kope'mah.

4. Who belonged to the dog soldier organization of the Kiowa tribe?
(a) The renegades.
(b) The warriors.
(c) The ten bravest men.
(d) The chiefs.

5. Why does Set's chart say that he is capable of violence?
(a) Set attacked Dr. Terriman with a vase.
(b) Set hit a nurse.
(c) Set screamed at the hospital staff.
(d) Set kicked a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Kiowa call the rent they charged for use of Indian land?

2. How did Set know where to go to begin his quest for a vision?

3. Where does Worcester Meat go after he has been sick for sixteen days?

4. Why does Grey think she is beautiful?

5. Why did the old wanderers consider the plains the most sacred of sacred grounds?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. For what does Grey thank Lola Bourne?

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

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

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

6. What understanding about Set does Lola Bourne come to while he is hospitalized?

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

8. How does Grey feel about herself during her pregnancy?

9. Who becomes the maker of shields?

10. Why does each man of the Plains Indians look upon Tsoai first thing each morning?

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