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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Grey want to imitate as a rider?

2. How did the people feel when they saw the stars after the others disappeared?

3. What do the Piegan feel when it is suggested to them that the strange boy was really a bear?

4. Who was the only member of the tribe to grieve the loss of the children who had disappeared?

5. What made Grey's great-grandmother, Kope'mah, into a medicine woman?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Native Americans let the summer go?

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

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

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

6. How does Grey feel about her appearance?

7. How does Set define art as he struggles with his reflection in the mirror?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Masks are an important theme in this story. Where/how are masks seen in this book? Are masks symbolic in this story? What do they represent? Use quotations and examples from the story to support your idea about masks in this book.

Essay Topic 2

Myths and legends are told through the generations for teaching purposes. The fact that this story ends with Set and Grey's great-great-grandson indicates that their story is part of that march of time. Briefly rewrite the story of Set as a Native American legend.

Essay Topic 3

In her childhood, Grey sees a Kiowa doll that she feels represents an important part of herself. Later, she sees a Navajo doll that seems to represent another aspect of herself. What does the Kiowa doll represent to Grey? What does the Navajo doll represent? Compare and contrast the different aspects of Kiowa and Navajo culture in Grey's life.

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