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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 was the only member of the tribe to grieve the loss of the children who had disappeared?
(a) The parents.
(b) The medicine man.
(c) The strangers.
(d) Koi-ehm-toya.

2. Why is Set so startled when he meets Grey at the encampment?
(a) She is not interested in him.
(b) She is like a boy.
(c) She is beautiful.
(d) She is hostile.

3. When Grey was being raped, who does she imagine is making love to her?
(a) Dwight Dicks.
(b) Murphy Dicks.
(c) Worcester Meat.
(d) Billy the Kid.

4. What made Grey's great-grandmother, Kope'mah, into a medicine woman?
(a) She had a vision of the bear.
(b) She danced in a Sun Dance.
(c) She saw Tai-me, the sacred Sun Dance doll.
(d) She was voted upon by the tribe.

5. What caused the butterflies to swarm up from the grass?
(a) Grey running.
(b) Kope-mah's chanting.
(c) Dog running.
(d) The flight of an eagle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Set hope to astonish with his painting?

2. According to the Ethnographic Dictionary of Navajo language, why are astrological pursuits often associated with witchcraft?

3. How does Set begin his recovery from the brink of madness?

4. What was the name of the first painting Lola Bourne bought from Set?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Set repeatedly ask Bent to be his father?

2. How does Grey feel about her appearance?

3. What was Set's first real notion of the infinite?

4. Set is taught in school that art is resistance. But he doesn't believe it. How does Set define art?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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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