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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 quality did the Kiowas have that the Navajo did not approve?

2. What is Dr. Terriman's evaluation of Set's condition?

3. Why don't Grey and Set speak at the dance?

4. What does Set have to learn to converse with Lela?

5. Why did the old wanderers consider the plains the most sacred of sacred grounds?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did every people who inhabited the great plains find there?

2. Why were the Piegan people unable to believe in the child?

3. For what does Grey thank Lola Bourne?

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

5. In Chapter Twelve, Grey does something that has been important to her for the last time. What is it?

6. What is unusual about the death of Worcester Meat?

7. Why does Grey feel at once humbled and important when she thinks of Set?

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

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

10. What is the Kaitsenko Society?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Names play an important role in this story. Describe the significance of names in this story, paying particular attention to the unnamed boy and Grey's bestowal of names on herself and Dog. Use quotations from the book to support your idea.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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