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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is Koi-ehm-toya?
(a) Bent.
(b) Kope'mah.
(c) Set.
(d) Grey.

4. What did the Kiowa call the rent they charged for use of Indian land?
(a) Field money.
(b) Seed money.
(c) Harvest money.
(d) Grass money.

5. What do Grey and Set see in the masks of the dancers?
(a) Art.
(b) The gods.
(c) Beauty.
(d) The future.

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

7. How is Set's health as he begins his vision quest?
(a) He is tired.
(b) He is twenty years too old.
(c) He is weak from his illness.
(d) He is physically fit.

8. Why does Billy the Kid feel unable to talk to Sitting Bear?
(a) Billy the Kid is ashamed of his life.
(b) Billy the Kid has commited great crimes.
(c) Billy the Kid has few words.
(d) Billy the Kid is not honest.

9. What does Set feel as he picks up the bear's paw?
(a) A calm serenity.
(b) A secure strength.
(c) An urgent restlessness.
(d) A wild curiosity.

10. What change comes to Grey in the summer?
(a) She is grumpy.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is less beautiful.
(d) She is tired all the time.

11. What change comes over Grey at her mother's house?
(a) She changes from a girl to a woman.
(b) She becomes lazy and childlike.
(c) She becomes restless and wild.
(d) She feels less sure of herself.

12. Who helps Milo Mottledmare transport Worcester Meat?
(a) Dog.
(b) Jessie.
(c) Dwight Dicks.
(d) Murphy Dicks.

13. What had caused Set's breakdown, according to the hospital?
(a) Skipping meals.
(b) Daydreaming.
(c) Extraordinary psychological pressure.
(d) Working too hard.

14. What did the ancient Native Americans call the plains?
(a) The land of innumerable distances.
(b) The land of unnameable distances.
(c) The land of long distances.
(d) The land of innumerable long distances.

15. What does Set look for after the vision of Bent leaves him?
(a) Set looks for butterflies.
(b) Set looks for Lukie.
(c) Set looks for his father.
(d) Set looks for the boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why couldn't the plains have an ordinary place name?

2. What word does Set thinks best describes Grey's personality?

3. Why did the Piegan people decide not to believe in the child who disappeared?

4. How did Set know where to go to begin his quest for a vision?

5. How did the Kiowa learn of the Piegan story?

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