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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Grey want to imitate as a rider?
(a) Jessie Mottledmare.
(b) Billy the Kid.
(c) Kope'mah.
(d) Bertha Yazzie.

2. What did Grey do at about the same time she acquired Dog?
(a) Won twenty-eight barrel races.
(b) Tied thirteen calves in record time.
(c) Proclaimed herself mayor of Bote, Oklahoma.
(d) Learned the Pony Express mount.

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

4. What did the wise man advise the Piegan people to do about the disappearing boy?
(a) Do not believe in him.
(b) Forget about him.
(c) Go search for him.
(d) Meditate about him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the strange, disinterested figure who approaches Kope'mah?

2. Why did the singing and dancing among the Kiowa end?

3. What do the Piegan feel when it is suggested to them that the strange boy was really a bear?

4. What is "Indian time?"

5. How does Murphy lose his horse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Billy the Kid visit Grey while she tends the dying Kope'mah?

2. What does Grey want her grandmother to tell her about Set?

3. At the Mottledmares', Set has a dream that he is deprived of a power that seems to him important. What does he dream he cannot do?

4. Who is the mother and who is the child in Chapter Twelve of Book One?

5. Why did Kope'mah experience loneliness as a medicine woman?

6. What feelings do the sisters experience as their brother turns into a bear?

7. What does Set think is the most wonderful of God's creations?

8. What passion did Grey acquire from Perfecto Atole?

9. What is the unanswered question, "Quien es?" in Chapter One of Book One?

10. What is the darkest power that Set has encountered? What would he have called this power if he had encountered it in another time and place?

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