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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 does Set find in his old bedroom?

2. What do Grey and Set see in the masks of the dancers?

3. How did Set know where to go to begin his quest for a vision?

4. What does the Navajo part of Grey long for?

5. Why does Set's chart say that he is capable of violence?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the native people move south into the great plains?

2. How does Set respond to the hospital staff's diagnosis and explanations of his condition?

3. What does Set feel as he opens the medicine bundle?

4. Why does each man of the Plains Indians look upon Tsoai first thing each morning?

5. How does Worcester Meat feel when he dies?

6. What is the vision that Set hopes to see?

7. Who is the boy that Set sees and hears in the garden of his old house?

8. What is the setting where Set begins his vision quest?

9. What does Set mean when he tells Lela that the bear stands against him, and that he is the bear?

10. How does Grey feel about herself during her pregnancy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The horse Dog has significance in this story. Why is he important? What do we learn about Grey from Dog's response to her and from her dealings with him?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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