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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Billy the Kid come to learn about from Sitting Bear?
(a) Truth.
(b) The purpose of life.
(c) Death.
(d) Courage.

2. When does Grey think her mother and sister will come to like Set?
(a) Immediately.
(b) After a while.
(c) Never.
(d) Within a few weeks.

3. What does Lola Bourne think Set is doing?
(a) Enjoying himself.
(b) Reconstructing himself.
(c) Annihilating himself.
(d) Forgetting himself.

4. What does Sitting Bear admire more than modesty?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Boasting.
(c) Humor.
(d) Courage.

5. Where does Worcester Meat go after he has been sick for sixteen days?
(a) To the hospital.
(b) Home to his little house.
(c) To the bed where Kope'mah died.
(d) To the forest.

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

7. What does Grey believe will bring Set to her?
(a) The sheer strength of her will.
(b) His Kiowa blood.
(c) The medicine bundle.
(d) His need for understanding of his culture.

8. What does Lela say has made Set sick?
(a) His Kiowa blood stands against him.
(b) The bear stands against him.
(c) His modern upbringing stands against him.
(d) His life as an orphan stands against him.

9. When Set returns to his adoptive father Bent's house, who does he see at first in his mind's eye?
(a) Lukie.
(b) Himself as a boy.
(c) Senora Archuleta.
(d) Bent.

10. Which direction did the Kiowa travel?
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) West.
(d) East.

11. How does Grey feel during the heavy rainstorms of the plains?
(a) Timid.
(b) Enlivened.
(c) Small and helpless.
(d) Frightened.

12. As Set grows stronger, what does he begin to do?
(a) Run.
(b) Sing.
(c) Laugh.
(d) Dance.

13. What does Grey see just as Set is arriving at the Mottledmare's home?
(a) A vision of Billy the Kid.
(b) A vision of Set's breakdown.
(c) A vision of the plains people.
(d) A vision of her future with Set.

14. What happens to Set after Bent dies?
(a) He becomes freer, more sociable.
(b) He becomes stronger.
(c) He has a breakdown.
(d) His painting becomes more controlled.

15. What increases the bond between Set and Grey?
(a) Understanding.
(b) Mutual interests.
(c) Consideration.
(d) Conversation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dr. Terriman say about Lola Bourne''s ability to help Set?

2. What did people who came later find the early tribes had left on the plains?

3. What does the boy leave behind him?

4. What does Set feel as he picks up the bear's paw?

5. What does Set do each night?

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