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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 did Koi-ehm-toya know the children were not foraging for food?

2. What was Dwight Dicks' name for Dog?

3. With whose death does the story begin?

4. What is Billy the Kid's mood in Grey's vision of him?

5. Who raped Grey?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Grey feel about her appearance?

3. Why does Billy the Kid visit Grey while she tends the dying Kope'mah?

4. 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?

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

6. Who first let Grey know that the bear was coming into her life?

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. Why doesn't Paulita Maxwell weep?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Billy the Kid has such fascination for the young Grey that she swoons and can't eat when she reads about him. What is it that intrigues Grey about Billy the Kid? What do you learn about her from the fantasies she enacts with him? Do these fantasies change as the story progresses? Write an essay analyzing the significance of Billy the Kid to Grey and to the story as a whole.

Essay Topic 3

Centaurs are mentioned in this story by Alais Sancerre and by Lola Bourne. Reread the passages about Set's art work using centaurs. What do you think they represent in this story? Support your idea with quotations and examples from the story.

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