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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. Why is Set so startled when he meets Grey at the encampment?

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

3. In the Kiowa myth, why are the boy's sisters running from him?

4. What happened after the strange boy appeared and disappeared?

5. Who is Henry McCarty?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. How does Grey feel about her appearance?

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

6. What is the purpose that Grey must serve in this chapter, although she is weary and hurt? What would she rather do?

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

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

9. Why is it that Grey never has to quest after visions?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

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.

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