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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. What passion had Perfecto Atole given Grey?

2. Who told Set the story of the boy who turns into a bear?

3. What two cultures combine in Grey?

4. Who is the only fictitious character in Grey's vision of helping Billy the Kid escape from jail?

5. Why did the Kiowa doll fascinate Grey?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the Mottledmares', Set has a dream that he is deprived of a power that seems to him important. What does he dream he cannot do?

2. Why did Kope'mah experience loneliness as a medicine woman?

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

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

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

6. Who is the mother and who is the child in Chapter Twelve of Book One?

7. How does Grey feel about her appearance?

8. Why was it better for the Piegan people to believe that the boy was a bear than that he was a boy?

9. What does Set think is the most wonderful of God's creations?

10. What is the unanswered question, "Quien es?" in Chapter One of Book One?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the girl Grey view the power of her sexuality? How does the woman Grey change? In your essay, analyze Grey's changing attitude toward sex.

Essay Topic 2

Grey's dialogues with Billy the Kid seem very different from her conversations in real life. Using examples, compare and contrast the Grey of her outlaw fantasies with the real girl. What do these differences tell you about her?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the differences in communication styles between Native Americans as viewed in this story and members of the mainstream culture. Find examples in the story to demonstrate cultural differences in communication.

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