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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. How old was Set when his mother died?

2. How does Grey feel about the horse she names Dog?

3. Who is Loki?

4. What does Set feel as he accepts the medicine bundle?

5. According to the prologue, how did the giant rock Tsoai become lined?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How can you tell that Dog belongs to Grey?

7. What is the darkest power that Set has encountered? What would he have called this power if he had encountered it in another time and place?

8. What does Grey want her grandmother to tell her about Set?

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

10. Why does Murphy Dicks feel ashamed when he talks to Grey?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Every author has a philosophical basis as well as a cultural one for the stories that he chooses to tell. Based on this story, examine what you think are Momaday's deeply-held beliefs about what is important in life. Justify your opinion with quotations and examples from the story.

Essay Topic 2

Both Set and Grey come from more than one ancestral background. Discuss the similarities and differences between the families of each. Use direct quotations and examples from the story to support each point.

Essay Topic 3

Consider this story from another character's point of view. Briefly write a narrative including the main facts in this story from the point of view of Jason, Dr. Merriman, or Lola Bourne.

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