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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, Chapter 2, An Awful Quiet Is in His Heart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why couldn't the plains have an ordinary place name?
(a) They were too frightening.
(b) They were too vast.
(c) They were too flat.
(d) They were too boring.

2. How old was Set when his father died?
(a) He was seventeen.
(b) He was twenty-seven.
(c) He was seven.
(d) He was a newborn.

3. Who was the only member of the tribe to grieve the loss of the children who had disappeared?
(a) The parents.
(b) The strangers.
(c) The medicine man.
(d) Koi-ehm-toya.

4. How old is Set?
(a) Forty-four.
(b) Fifty-seven.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Twenty-six.

5. The plains are a perfect equation of what two elements?
(a) Distance and time.
(b) Darkness and light.
(c) Freedom and space.
(d) Native Americans and settlers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only fictitious character in Grey's vision of helping Billy the Kid escape from jail?

2. What change comes over Grey at her mother's house?

3. When Grey was being raped, who does she imagine is making love to her?

4. What happened after the strange boy appeared and disappeared?

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

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