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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Koi-ehm-toya know the children were not foraging for food?
(a) They were too young to forage.
(b) There was plenty of food in the camp.
(c) They were running, not walking.
(d) No one had called them to hunt for food.

2. What was the date of Billy the Kid's death?
(a) July 13.
(b) July 14.
(c) July 16.
(d) July 15.

3. What prize had Momaday won when he wrote this book?
(a) The National Book Award.
(b) The American Book Award.
(c) The Nobel Prize for Literature.
(d) The Pulitzer Prize.

4. According to the Ethnographic Dictionary of Navajo language, why are astrological pursuits often associated with witchcraft?
(a) They require the slaughter of animals.
(b) They require weird ingredients.
(c) They require solitude and darkness.
(d) They require one who is consecrated to the task.

5. Who raped Grey?
(a) Worcester Meat.
(b) Billy the Kid.
(c) Murphy Dicks.
(d) Dwight Dicks.

6. Who is Deluvina Maxwell?
(a) A friend of Kope'mah.
(b) One of the seven sisters.
(c) Grey's mother.
(d) A Navajo servant.

7. How does Set begin his recovery from the brink of madness?
(a) He takes a shower.
(b) He answers the phone.
(c) He has an omelet at Joe's.
(d) He goes out for chowder.

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

9. How did the townspeople react to Billy's escape?
(a) They hid.
(b) They cheered.
(c) They didn't find out until much later.
(d) They chased him.

10. How does Grey react to the news that the bear is coming?
(a) She dreams she sleeps with the bear.
(b) She dreams the bear carries her away.
(c) She dreams she kills the bear.
(d) She dreams the bear kills her.

11. What does Grey go to the cemetery to ask her grandmother about Set?
(a) Is he the bear?
(b) Is he the one for me?
(c) Is he related to us?
(d) Will he return?

12. What does Jason love best?
(a) Money.
(b) Fine art.
(c) Making money.
(d) Producing art.

13. What is a bee-wolf?
(a) An ancient name for a bear.
(b) An ancient name for a werewolf.
(c) A female wolf.
(d) A Native American name for a wolf.

14. Who does Murphy think he sounds like when he talks?
(a) The rodeo announcer.
(b) His father.
(c) Perfecto Atole.
(d) A coward.

15. What expression does Grey learn was found in Billy the Kid's eyes?
(a) Nothing whatever.
(b) Crazed excitement.
(c) Ferocious anger.
(d) Intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Grey feel about the horse she names Dog?

2. How old was Set when his father died?

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

4. How did the people feel when they saw the stars after the others disappeared?

5. What does Lola Bourne say she expects when she looks at the painting of the Night Window Man?

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