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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 word does Set thinks best describes Grey's personality?

2. How do the hospital staff treat Set?

3. What had caused Set's breakdown, according to the hospital?

4. What does Grey see just as Set is arriving at the Mottledmare's home?

5. What does Set look for after the vision of Bent leaves him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Grey know that Set will act in the proper way?

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

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

4. How does Set's art change as his personality begins to disintegrate?

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

6. Why is it important to Dr. Terriman and Lola Bourne that Set dances?

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

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

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

10. Who becomes the maker of shields?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Masks are an important theme in this story. Where/how are masks seen in this book? Are masks symbolic in this story? What do they represent? Use quotations and examples from the story to support your idea about masks in this book.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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