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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 tells Grey that the bear is coming?

2. What was Dwight Dicks' name for Dog?

3. Why does Koi-ehm-toya think her people have grown careless?

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

5. What surprised Kope'mah as a child when she watched buffalo with her father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. What was Set's first real notion of the infinite?

8. What passion did Grey acquire from Perfecto Atole?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both Set and Grey express themselves through art: Set as a painter and Grey as a writer. Write an essay analyzing the way each expresses himself or herself as it changes through the story. As you catalog the changes, determine whether you think each will continue to practice their painting and writing in the future. If so, do you think they will share their work with others? What do you make of the fact that their great-great grandson is an artist, a maker of shields?

Essay Topic 2

The book begins with a section called "Planes," then a section called "Lines," then "Shapes," and ultimately, "Shadows." What do you think this geometrical view of the world represents? Use quotations from the story to support your point of view.

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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