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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Chapter 8, They Are Too Far Away | Book 1, Chapter 9, She Fixes Him in an Evil-eye Stare.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Grey imagine she met Billy the Kid?
(a) In the courthouse.
(b) At the outhouse.
(c) In jail.
(d) On horseback.

2. What is the strange, disinterested figure who approaches Kope'mah?
(a) Death.
(b) Tai-me.
(c) Grey.
(d) Kope'mah.

3. How does the author describe Kiowa life in the summertime?
(a) It was frightening.
(b) It was dirty and ignorant.
(c) It was idyllic.
(d) It was deprived.

4. What language does Grey grow up speaking?
(a) Kiowa.
(b) Lakota Sioux.
(c) English.
(d) Navajo.

5. What does death seem to be to Kope'mah?
(a) A friend.
(b) A riddle.
(c) An enemy.
(d) A blessing.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whose death does the story begin?

2. What prize had Momaday won when he wrote this book?

3. In the Kiowa myth, why are the boy's sisters running from him?

4. According to the Ethnographic Dictionary of Navajo language, why are astrological pursuits often associated with witchcraft?

5. According to the prologue, how did the giant rock Tsoai become lined?

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