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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. When Grey was being raped, who does she imagine is making love to her?
2. Who is Loki?
3. According to the prologue, how did the giant rock Tsoai become lined?
4. How did the townspeople react to Billy's escape?
5. What caused the butterflies to swarm up from the grass?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Lola Bourne see in the painting "Night Window Man" that Set himself does not see?
2. Why did the parents of the lost children decide not to grieve for them?
3. Why does Set repeatedly ask Bent to be his father?
4. Dwight Dicks and his son Murphy are discussing an event, and there is a menace among their words. What event are they discussing in Chapter Eighteen of Book One and why is there menace?
5. Why does Billy the Kid visit Grey while she tends the dying Kope'mah?
6. 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?
7. What does Koi-ehm-toya see as her responsibility to the children who wander into the woods?
8. What was Set's first real notion of the infinite?
9. Why did Kope'mah experience loneliness as a medicine woman?
10. What is the purpose that Grey must serve in this chapter, although she is weary and hurt? What would she rather do?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the birth of Grey and Set's child. Include details from the story and try to make predictions based on the known details. For instance, if the child is a boy, what do you think they will name him, and why? If it is a girl, what do you think they will name her and why? What kind of education do you think they will want for their child? How do you think they will celebrate the birth? Where do you think they will live? Remember to have plausible justification for each of your story elements.
Essay Topic 2
Explain which purpose Momaday had in mind as he wrote. Was his purpose to inform, to entertain, or to persuade? Why do you think so? Was he successful in achieving his purpose?
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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