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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. What promise had Grey made that preys on Set?
(a) She had something important to give him.
(b) She would teach him Kiowa stories.
(c) She would teach him to ride.
(d) She would tell him about his parents.

2. What was the name of the first painting Lola Bourne bought from Set?
(a) "Centaur in the Dark."
(b) "Night Window Man."
(c) "Girl on Horseback."
(d) "Window in the Dark."

3. Who tells Grey that the bear is coming?
(a) Kope'mah.
(b) The bear himself.
(c) Perfecto Atole.
(d) Koi-ehm-toya.

4. How old is Grey?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Seventeen.

5. Why doesn't Jason want to display the painting Lola Bourne buys?
(a) It's disturbing.
(b) It's nonrepresentational.
(c) It's different from Set's other work.
(d) It's unskilled.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the townspeople react to Billy's escape?

2. Why is Set so startled when he meets Grey at the encampment?

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

4. Why was the Piegan camp troubled when the unknown boy came to their camp, then disappeared?

5. What does Set think that Grey has more than beauty?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Set define art as he struggles with his reflection in the mirror?

2. Why doesn't Paulita Maxwell weep?

3. How do the Native Americans let the summer go?

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

5. What do masks represent to Grey as she makes them?

6. What does Koi-ehm-toya see as her responsibility to the children who wander into the woods?

7. Why was it better for the Piegan people to believe that the boy was a bear than that he was a boy?

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

9. Dwight Dicks and his son Murphy are discussing an event, and there is a menace among their words. What event are they discussing in Chapter Eighteen of Book One and why is there menace?

10. What comes to nothing in Chapter Twenty of Book One? Why does everything feel pointless to Set as he considers his pilgrimage home?

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